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New cafe in Japan won’t let you leave until you solve a mystery

Hatena Coffee lives up to its name.

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Why did the crazy-expensive version of Japan’s super-cheap corn snack sell out? We ask the artist

For the price of the 100,000-yen modern art Umaibo you could get over 6,600 of the regular puffed corn snacks, and whether its buyers will display or eat their new snacks remains to be seen.

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Our Japanese writers share times they were the fool in honor of April Fools Day

It may be factual, may be cruel. Everybody plays the fool.

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Mr. Sato’s mad Majima cosplay and other outfits from Mafia Day at SoraNews24HQ【Photos】

Things go predictably off the rails as our boss tells us to dress up for Mafia Day.

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Want to eat ramen and sushi together? New restaurant in Tokyo makes culinary dreams come true

A two-in-one restaurant that’s yet to be discovered by foreign tourists.

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Kanagawa man arrested for pouring instant noodles into train ticket machine

We can only hope he didn’t also put money down his throat.

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New form of luxurious poverty arrives at Japanese convenience stores with Tenkasu Gohan

Lawson tempts us with rice topped not with tempura shrimp, but tempura nothing.

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New Takoyaki Burger from Wendy’s Japan makes us rethink Osaka’s specialty food

Find out if octopus balls taste better in burger form.

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Tokyo’s Bread Eating Race to return with a whole new challenge

Speed and snacking go hand in hand in this deliciously competitive sport.

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New Okonomiyaki Burger flips up the fast food scene in Japan

Exclusively available in one area of the country.

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Believe it or not, this row of retro Japanese bars is actually a hotel!【Photos】

Northern Japanese town famous for its castles and cherry blossoms also has one of the country’s most unique hotels.

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Japanese pot sticker restaurant chain also runs flat-rate hot spring inn, but is it worth staying at?

We head to the most unique branch of Gyoza no Manshu there is.

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Japanese man who ate at same beef bowl chain for 2,000 days in a row announces he’s gotten married

But will marriage change his eating habits?

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Japan’s new trading card game hit has pictures of real-life middle-aged men on every card【Video】

“Ojisan trading card game” brings smiles to young and old in Fukuoka town.

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Thinking she was giving money to Mick Jagger to invest for her, woman conned in Aomori

No sympathy for this devil.

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New high-alcohol version of Japan’s low-alcohol canned cocktails on the way

Suntory more than triples the alcohol content of its Horoyoi for newest member of product line.

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Large drunk foreign man arrested for trespassing on imperial palace grounds in Tokyo

Visiting the imperial family unannounced is always a bad idea, especially when it’s the middle of the night and you’re hammered.

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Our human reporter and her pet try Hokkaido’s “human-grade pet food” together【Taste test】

The inter-species family that eats together stays together.

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Edible deep-fried “coal” souvenir ignites our curiosity, so naturally we try it for ourselves

Spoiler alert: No, it’s not really coal, but it could seriously be a carbon copy.

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Japanese puffed corn snack to be sold for 110,000 yen as work of art

Nearly identical Umaibo snacks cost 15 yen each.

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