Korean cheese dog, tornado potato cooking gadgets bring Seoul street food to your home kitchen

Bandai sub-brand is ready to help us satisfy our street food cravings without setting a foot outside. With the percentage of our meals that we eat at home skyrocketing during the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve been investing in a growing collection of cooking gadgets over the past few months. We’ve got our super-compact single-person rice cooker, […]

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Tokyo store sells beautiful Japanese fruit sandwiches that look like floral arrangements

A fruity bouquet of flavour for your taste buds, with a special surprise hidden in the back of each one.  In Japan, 28 June is also known as “Parfait Day”. While many of these unofficial “days”, which honour everything from maids to mayonnaise, are usually formed due to word puns that correlate to dates of the […]

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New Mochi Cream Doughnuts from Mister Donut pay homage to Japanese confectionery

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever had a daifuku cream doughnut? Japan’s leading doughnut chain, Mister Donut, or “Misdo” as it’s affectionately known, has been transforming the world of sweets and wowing us all with bold new flavours and innovative varieties in recent years. Now the chain is continuing to break the mould […]

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Japanese architecture firm creates luxurious “Cat High-Rise Condominium” cat tree【Video】

For different floor for four different aspects of your kitty’s lifestyle. In Japan, cat trees are called “cat towers,” and high-rise condominiums are called “tower mansions.” So really it was only a matter of time before someone linked the two and created the “cat tower mansion,” a luxurious high-rise condo for a cat. The brainchild […]

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Weird Japanese vending machine find: Soda that looks like mayonnaise

We try the strange beverage that’s got people all shook up in Japan. About seven years ago, a local beverage company called Cheerio made waves when a new drink began appearing inside their vending machines around Japan. Called “Nanchatte Orange“, which translates to “Fake Orange“, the beverage came in a bottle that looked nearly identical […]

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Kyoto’s annual giant mountain bonfire displays drastically reduced in 2020

Gozan no Okuribi organizers strike a balance between tradition and safety. Every year in August, during the Obon season in Japan, Kyoto holds the Gozan no Okuribi event in which gigantic shapes are created in fire on cleared areas of five mountains. The name “okuribi” means “send-off fire” as it’s meant to wish farewell to […]

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Just how waterproof is this waterproof notebook? We put it to the test, SoraNews24 style

We give this notebook the wet and wild treatment! When you’re looking for a new notebook, what qualities do you look for in the paper? Thickness? A glossy finish? Smooth to the touch? Well, for true stationary aficionados, the best kind of paper is, without a doubt, waterproof paper. Whether you’re caught out in the rain […]

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You can now get stick-on salon masks for haircuts in the coronavirus age in Japan

See-through and strapless, the new masks help getting a haircut in the new normal feel a little more like it did in the old normal. It’s been roughly half a year since social distancing initiatives started in earnest in Japan and many other countries, and among those of us who hadn’t happened to go in […]

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The Evangelion Tamagotchi is here, so let’s raise an Angel!【Photos】

We learn a hard lesson about being good parents while trying to take care of our little Angel. It’s a testament to the wide variety of Japanese pop culture that late-‘90s debuts of psyche-scarring anime Evangelion and adorable virtual pet Tamagotchi came only 13 months apart from one another, and both went on to become […]

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PM Abe’s face masks worn as bra by Tokyo assembly member candidate

YouTube livestreamer enters politics, aims to get votes with eye-catching campaign poster. Tokyo is now entering election season, and as candidates in the city begin to campaign for the upcoming gubernatorial election on 5 July, a by-election to elect a new assembly member for Tokyo’s Kita Ward is also due to be held on the same […]

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