Japanese vending machines
“Unprecedented combination” of chocolate mint and carbonic acid surprises us with its flavour.
Revolutionary new system aims to keep your hands clean but people aren’t entirely sold on the idea.
Just when we thought Japanese vending machines couldn’t get any more awesome, we’re happy to be proven wrong.
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Muji adds Japanese haori samurai coats to their casual wear collection
Japan’s Best Home Senbero: Don Quijote sells booze and surprisingly good “sushi” for under US$10
Play the meta capsule toy game at Japan’s second-hand stores for some real surprises
Tokyo Revengers anime/manga takes over Tokyo Station with dozens of character posters【Photos】
Cup Noodle Sodas: Culinary innovation or beverage abomination?
Let’s make a giant soap bubble with Daiso’s Let’s Make a Giant Soap Bubble
This Tokyo apartment complex lets you paint your room, offers community BBQ and camping gear
Squish, pop, and roll your way through Tokyo’s new ginormous bubble-wrap play park
This type of conveyor belt sushi tastes different in Tokyo than it does in Osaka, but why?
We try fresh orange juice squeezed for us by a vending machine in Saitama【Taste test】
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A house in the Japanese countryside for just US$9,100? You bet we bought it!【Photos, video】
Butt without body – Strange new anime figure line is all about the backside【Photos】
We made pan-fried and baked mini apple pies using gyoza dumpling wrappers【SoraKitchen】
Japanese netizens give their thoughts on how English has changed the meaning of “senpai”
Real-life heart of the cards? Amazing Yu-Gi-Oh! hand floats up to man in Japanese river【Pics】
Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako strips away the cosplay for new photo book
Tokyo farewells Japan’s only double-decker Shinkansen with a special escalator at the station
Nissin Cup Noodle Soda gives us the flavour of instant ramen as fizzy drinks!
We try Japan’s new drinkable curry in a can
The top 70 words that keep showing up in Japanese light novel titles (and yes, isekai is one of them)
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Japanese stores create clever anti-scalper policies for Pokémon cards, Gundam model kits
Japanese mom’s son crashes her piano recital, melts the Internet’s heart【Video】
Demon Slayer anime restaurant coming to Universal Studios with Hashira meals, life-size figures
“The remains of dead dreams” found in Japanese garbage are too painfully real
Muscly Japanese men fill stock photo site with hilarious poses in unusual settings
New interior necessity: Japanese dining table with a hole for your cat right in the middle【Pics】
Netflix shows off live-action Cowboy Bebop cast in costume, Japanese Internet less than impressed
Princesses, fruits, and blacksmiths: Study reveals the 30 most unusual family names in Japan
Utada Hikaru’s son says he doesn’t like being called “handsome,” J-pop star has wise advice
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Nintendo puts out important notice for casual gamers who’ve bought a Switch during the pandemic
Studio Ghibli releases 400 images from eight movies free to download online
A Pokémon glitch no one discovered in 18 years has been found…by a pet fish in Japan?!?【Videos】
Top 10 anime women with biggest, most impactful breasts, voted by thousands of Japanese netizens
Man loses 200 times at crane game, calls police to investigate, staff member loses 300 times too
Hayao Miyazaki has a gripe against Japanese female voice actors
Totoro discovered in Japanese forest【Photos】- Princesses, fruits, and blacksmiths: Study reveals the 30 most unusual family names in Japan
Mario isn’t number one? Nintendo plumber doesn’t win Super Mario series character popularity poll- Hayao Miyazaki ambushed while picking up trash on street for opinions on Demon Slayer
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Let’s make a giant soap bubble with Daiso’s Let’s Make a Giant Soap Bubble
This Tokyo apartment complex lets you paint your room, offers community BBQ and camping gear
Squish, pop, and roll your way through Tokyo’s new ginormous bubble-wrap play park
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We try fresh orange juice squeezed for us by a vending machine in Saitama【Taste test】
Does this egg timer from Japanese 100-yen store Daiso really work?
ANA to auction off replica first class seat and real window frame from a Boeing 777
Believe it! Naruto live-action stage play returns, shows off huge new cast and costumes【Photos】
These apartments are crazy-small even by Tokyo standards, and super-popular with young people
When is it OK to take a naked hot spring bath with your Japanese girlfriend/boyfriend?
Is this chic hotel in Tokyo’s Asakusa district really a capsule hotel? As a matter of fact, yes!
Real life yandere? Japanese man’s ex-girlfriend sneaks into his home, cooks up something crazy
Mos Burger’s popular Focaccia Sandwich returns to Japan after seven years
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