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Used Pikachu Garigari-kun sticks are being bought for over 140 times the cost of a new box of the frozen treats.
Liquored up naps, sometimes in car lanes, are so common in one part of Japan that there’s a new vocabulary word for it.
You might think it’s dumb, but after watching the “how it’s made” video, you just might want one after all!
Potato lovers rejoice: Choose from 100 varieties of potato salad disguised as colorful cones of gelato during upcoming campaign.
Clever cake maker thinks of everything, even how to turn the wasabi and ginger that come in a sushi set into proper desserts.
Tokyo won’t give you a permit to film on the Scramble Crossing? Don’t worry, because now there’s an alternate site!
The concept restaurant brings us juicy bursts of color and flavor for their monstrous summer menu.
It looks like a science fiction monster of the week, but it’s actually a salute the millennia-old past.
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