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Japan’s premier tonkotsu ramen chain gives us some wonderful goodies to celebrate the New Year.
As usual, we cannot resist the lure of a tremendous bargain–even if all we get is useless junk.
Only available to lottery winners, we take a look at the special goods inside this “phantom” box.
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History’s largest force of Samurai Colonel Sanders deploying to KFC Japan branches
Dry and iron your laundry hands-free and fast with Village Vanguard’s hot air bag clothes dryer
Getting free ice cream at Ben & Jerry’s just became every Japanese citizen’s civic duty
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Our reporter tries nuikatsu for the first time, but is he too old for this otaku lifestyle hobby?
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