Japanese summers are famous for being hot and humid, so many people (including me) prefer light and refreshing meals or beverages as a cool relief…

Today, May 10th, 2021, Japanese paper manufacturing company Marutomi Seishi Co., Ltd. launched “Penguin Coreless Ultra-Long MAX Pulp Sextuple Length 300-meter Single-Ply 2 Roll” packages…

One of Japanese online retailer Felissimo’s biggest hits from their YOU+MORE! series (a play on the pronunciation of “humor” in Japanese) has been an “evolving”…

Koupen-chan Japan has an undeniable penchant for cute characters. This means that even after creating internationally beloved icons such as Hello Kitty and Pikachu, they…

Eating parfaits as a sweet conclusion to a night out or a nice dinner, a trend known as shime pafe シメパフェ (literally, “closer parfait”), began…

Last year, we wrote about an amazing pop-up penguin “bomb” made only of paper and rubber bands which had a surprising pop-up action. Made by…

We’re sad to report that Grape, the Humboldt penguin at Tobu Zoo who became famous for his infatuation with a carboard cutout of Hululu, an…

You’re never too old to fall in love, as one penguin living at the Tobu Zoo in Saitama Prefecture proved when he met what soon…

One of the highlights of going to an aquarium is to see spectacular shows of marine animals. Trained to perfection, many of us marvel at…

I’m not joking – Japan is really hot right now. Us humans pretend to feel a bit cooler by eating these somen noodles. Sometimes we…