“Sushi Roll Factory” toy combines automatic sushi maker and sushi carousel in one!
Japanese toy manufacturer Takara Tomy Arts Corporation has announced a new toy that is both fun and practical and sure to please sushi lovers young…
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Katsu chain Katsuya brings its “best-effort pork katsu” to your dining table
Who says you can’t enjoy katsu at home without the fuss and mess of preparing and frying ingredients? On June 20th, 2022, Japan’s Arkland Service…
Japanese airport’s international gourmet vending machines has netizens clamoring for them everywhere
Vending machines in Japan are known for conveniently being just around every corner, but they might as well be known for carrying just about everything…
American stunned that his Japanese wife literally sees the world differently
Here is a manga by るびー Ruby (@rubydaysart), a Japanese manga artist who lives with her American husband Jasper in New York. One day, Ruby…
No splattering! Open Muji and other retort pouches cleanly every time
Retort pouches are a common format for selling food. In Japan, many brands use them to pack a wide variety of liquid foods ranging from…
Adorable cucumbers look extremely happy to be turned into kimchi
Typically it’s with some great artistry and design that we see food turned into super adorable treats, but occasionally things might just fall into place…
Spy x Family pop-up shop merch has cute peanut theme, Loid, Yor and Anya in overalls
Two weeks from now, fans of the internationally trending and wildly popular manga and anime series Spy × Family (stylized as SPY×FAMILY) will be converging…
Anime-loving bride’s wedding dream comes true, cutting cake with Exaclibur from Fate/Zero and Attack on Titan gear
For anime and manga fans in Japan looking to tie the knot, there’s a lot of ways to bring their fandom to matrimony. Whether it…
Six cute hime cut hairstyles according to illustrator Narumi Hosokawa
Since last year, a hairstyle known as the hime cut (姫カット hime katto in Japanese) has been trending internationally. Whether it’s the models at Prada’s…
Japanese hobbyist can repel mosquitoes in style with his “armillary sphere” artwork
Mosquito coils, known as katori senkō 蚊取り線香 (literally “mosquito-removing incense”) in Japanese, are an unmistakable part of the iconography of summer in Japan. For many…
Popular Japanese yakiniku chain introduces Vtuber meat delivery robots as staff
While use of robots in the service industry is by no means a new topic in Japan, there has been an observable uptick in gravitation…
Super “self-assertive” beef bowl store in Japan is a mindbender for Twitter
Gyudon, or beef bowls, are fast food favorite of many in Japan looking for a meaty and filling meal. Sukiya is one of the country’s…
“I saw two men holding hands…”: Japanese store has perfect response to prejudiced complaint
In the interest of improving customer service, it’s still common in many parts of the world for stores to have physical suggestion boxes. In Japan,…
Japanese ruins photographer’s shot of abandoned escalator reclaimed by nature shows another world
“Haikyo” is the Japanese word for “ruins”, but can be used to refer to both physical locations of abandoned places as well as the act…
Tokyo’s Poop Museum discovers and displays 12 new species of poop animals for you to play with
When Japan’s Unko Museum, or Poop Museum, first opened up in Yokohama, it made such a splash in the toilet that it soon after got…