The Kojima family’s pork cutlet bowl recipe is both startlingly innovative and really, really old.
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Just when we thought things couldn’t get any more startling at Yachiyo’s most unique sweets shop, this happened.
Handwritten note from a Japanese granddad turns out to be heartwarming…and strangely heartbreaking at the same time.
Whether you know it as coriander, cilantro or pakuchi, this is a very surprising combination.
Our natural instinct is to open up our Gashapon capsules ASAP, but it’s not so simple here.
Venom Extraction Room’s Snake Meet and Greet is just the start of the weird fun at this facility hidden in the mountains of east Japan.
Light novel series Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon makes the jump to anime.
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Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
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Egg tart vendor promises not to accidentally sell realistic plastic samples a third time
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