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Two beloved flavors from the Showa and Heisei periods make their triumphant return to the shelves!
Cassettes are back in style in Japan in a big way, with new releases and people paying premiums for discontinued tapes.
The new Pokémon series may have the same original Japanese name, but it’s scored by a brand new composer.
Keep refreshed and get a glimpse of Japanese high school life with these charming bottle designs.
Seriously, it’s been a long, long time since these series aired, and now we feel really old.
We found a candy store/Showa-era time capsule in Fukuoka, and took lots of photos of its old-timey delights!
Stroll the streets of Electric Town at a time when computers and video games were just beginning to appear on the scene.
Grab your Virtual Boy and ready your quarters, it’s time to knock back a shot of gaming nostalgia!
Now that we’re two decades on from the ’90s, what shows would you like to see receive a modern day make-over?
Fans of fat Pikachu rejoice! The classic designs from the original Pokémon games star in this reprint of an old line. Gotta catch ’em all!
Celebrate 20 years of catching ’em all with Pokémon Center Japan’s new line of throwback goods.
Baby King Kitchen is a restaurant that wants to make adults feel like kids again. Is it just a happy meal pipe dream, or a trip down memory lane?
It’s weird being in your thirties (or thereabouts) in 2015. Kids today have no idea what a struggle it was for us growing up in the days before smartphone selfies, dumb internet trends, and myriad modern technological conveniences. Wait, what are we saying, it was absolutely awesome! For ours was a more innocent childhood, full of VHS tapes, talking on phones connected to the wall by a wire, and clunky dial-up internet that still felt like the greatest thing ever invented.
Japan’s 30s club is no different; they too are nostalgic for the relics of a simpler past. And in this article, we round up 22 nostalgic items that Japanese Twitter users say sum up their idyllic childhoods. But how many of them (if any) are the same as those we in the west enjoyed?
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Japanese vending machine is the first of its kind, operated by a local business
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One Punch Man manga artist’s amazing “practice” drawing is so good we think he might not be human
Sony’s wearable air conditioners selling like cold cakes in heat-stricken Japan
How to use the new floating hologram registers at 7-Eleven
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Lawson announces new human-controlled digital avatars at store registers starting this fall
Turning a crazy cheap country Japanese house into a home — Step 6: Outdoor bathing【SoraHouse】
So long, CDs – Japan’s Geo chain will no longer purchase used compact discs
Japanese town’s Pikachu, Eevee mailboxes are awesome, and there’s another Pokémon to see too【Pics】
Cup Noodle’s latest giveaway prizes are insane, even by Cup Noodle standards【Pics】
Official My Neighbor Totoro cookbook teaches you to make Satsuki’s bento and other Ghibli meshi
Literal breastplate will give you a cosplay-ready, anime-class bust in seconds 【Photos】
What’s it like to shop at Family Mart’s first “unmanned convenience store” in Japan?
Princesses, fruits, and blacksmiths: Study reveals the 30 most unusual family names in Japan
Japan’s Raincoat Man arrested for stealing 360 women’s raincoats, “As exciting as lingerie”【Vids】
New Studio Ghibli die-cast anime car line brings Catbus, Spirited Away Sea Railway to your home
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