New Japanese Kit Kats Are Cough Drop Flavored
Nestlé Japan hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down when it comes to releasing adventurous Kit Kat flavors, recently hitting Japan with interesting flavors such…
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No Face Soy Sauce Bottle And Rice Paddle Are Here To Spirit Your Cooking Away
You can always count on Japanese Studio Ghibli goods store Donguri Kyowakoku for some cool and quirky Spirited Away themed goods, including a No Face…
These Creepy Japanese Polygon Animal Masks Will Give You Panda Nightmares
When it comes to adventurous headgear in Japan, very few things match up to these creepy hyper-realistic gigantic felt cat heads, but eccentric book and…
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[Part 5] Professional Anime Artist Turns His Sons’ Sketches Into Amazing Anime Characters
By now you may be familiar with the work of Tokyo-based French anime artist Thomas Romain (Symphogear, Space Dandy, Aria, Macross Delta, and Basquash!), who…
Japanese Animation Artist Brings Ukiyo-e Prints To Life With Charming Gifs And Back To The Future
Ukiyo-e, which translates to “image(s) of the floating world,” is a genre of Japanese art that thrived from the 17th to 19th centuries. Artists produced…
1,500 Pikachus Invade Yokohama For The Annual Pikachu Festival–This Time With Boats And Blimps!
In what has become an annual event in Yokohama’s Minato Mirai area, the The Pikachu Outbreak Festival runs for nearly a week long (8/9-8/15 this…
Japanese Designer And Welder Couple Team Up To Create Awesome Cardboard Mecha For Cat
We’ve seen some of Japan’s incredible cardboard artists apply their craft to feline goods, including an awesome DIY sushi restaurant house for their cat, as…
Footage Shows Abandoned Areas Of Fukushima Being Reclaimed By Nature 7 Years Later
Tetsuro Takehana, a photographer for the Asahi Shinbun, spent 10 years of his childhood in Fukushima Prefecture, recently returned to the region to capture photography…
Have Your Cup And Eat It Too With Tokyo’s Cute Coffee In Ice Cream Cones
For those that have been to Japan, one lasting image of the country’s coffee scene may be the nearly endless selection of canned coffees found…
Japan’s Newest Online Trend Is Sticking Straws Through Cheeseburgers
Japanese social media trends can be adorably quirky, but for the most part are often limited to the confines of a special “holiday” and reported…
Hit Manga And Anime Series One Piece Is Getting A Hollywood Live Action Television Series
Eiichiro Oda’s record-shattering manga and anime series, One Piece, is getting its very own live-action television series overseas. The announcement was made by Hiroyuki Nakano…
Live Action Fullmetal Alchemist Trailer, Posters, Reveal Homunculi And More Characters
On July 12th in Tokyo, a fan event for popular manga and anime series Fullmetal Alchemist showed off the third and latest teaser trailer for…
Japanese Model Artist’s Amazingly Detailed Recreation Of Spirited Away’s Bath House
There’s plenty of ways to relive the magic of the Aburaya bath house from Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away, whether it be heading to Japan to…
Fish Comes To Visit Japanese Diver Friend At Underwater Shrine For 30 Years
You may remember Hasama Underwater Park, a praised diving spot in Japan that houses an underwater Shinto shrine (a specially opened extension of the Susaki…
Sip Coffee On Tatami Mats Inside A Century-Old Building At Kyoto’s Traditionally Japanese Starbucks
Walk the streets of any country where Starbucks has planted its roots and you’re bound to see the familiar green logo beckoning passersby to have…