Customers get to enjoy four floors of steamy hot baths, exquisite restaurants, and fun activities right in the heart of Osaka.
Osaka (Page 13)
“To serve and protect” gets trumped by “to ogle and leer” as violent-crime suspect slips out of detention center.
Lawson convenience stores took two staples of Japanese cuisine and smashed them together for our pleasure.
The numbers don’t lie as we taste test the new dessert drink exclusive to just one prefecture in Japan.
Doing donuts in central Japan’s biggest city is a sure-fire way to get the police to bring out their fists of fury.
The regional-exclusive drinks pay homage to a local tea master who was forced to commit seppuku by order of a samurai lord.
Hankyu Umeda will showcase highlights from British culture, with spotlights on fantasy characters, cuisine and even Buckingham palace-style marches!
61-year governmental partnership brought to a close as Osaka mayor cites lack of necessary “deep trust.”
Constantly scowling penguin is incapable of service with a smile, but he looks adorably delicious anyway.
Golgo 13 has spent his life putting bullets in people, and now you can put your life in him.
Brand-new caper for anime’s greatest thief is latest installment of Universal Cool Japan project.
Typhoon makes Kansai International’s runway indistinguishable from the ocean around the island, turns 5.7 million-pound boat into instrument of havoc.
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McDonald’s new Happy Meals offer up cute and practical Sanrio lifestyle goods- Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
New definition of “Japanese whiskey” goes into effect to prevent fakes from fooling overseas buyers
Our Japanese reporter visits Costco in the U.S., finds super American and very Japanese things
Japanese ramen restaurants under pressure from new yen banknotes
All-you-can-drink Starbucks and amazing views part of Tokyo’s new 170 meter-high sky lounge
More foreign tourists than ever before in history visited Japan last month- Bad tourist manners at Mt Fuji Lawson photo spot prompts Japanese town to block view with screens
New Pokémon cakes let you eat your way through Pikachu and all the Eevee evolutions
Disney princesses get official manga makeovers for Manga Princess Cafe opening in Tokyo
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Sales of Japan’s most convenient train ticket/shopping payment cards suspended indefinitely
Sold-out Studio Ghibli desktop humidifiers are back so Totoro can help you through the dry season
Japanese government to make first change to romanization spelling rules since the 1950s- Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
Ghibli founders Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki contribute to Japanese whisky Totoro label design
Doraemon found buried at sea as scene from 1993 anime becomes real life【Photos】
Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
One Piece characters’ nationalities revealed, but fans have mixed opinions
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Is Japan’s massive Shizuoka steak sandwich really as delicious as it looks in promo photos?
Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
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