No Reason Not To Eat Nori! Quick & Easy Recipes To Try With Gohandesuyo! Nori Paste
One of Japan’s most popular condiments and rice toppings, Momoya’s Gohandesuyo! ごはんですよ！ made from nori (laver) seaweed, seasoned with soy sauce and sugar, is sold…
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Japan’s “Secret Macho T” Undershirt Instantly Gives You A Buff Physique
The Hoso-Macho Look Embodied by celebrities like actors Sota Fukushi (Gentaro Kisaragi in Kamen Rider Fourze, Ichigo Kurosaki in the film adaptation of Bleach!) and…
Channel The Fox Spirits When You Visit Kyoto With These Stylish Fox Mask Cookies
Fushimi Inari is one of the most popular travel destinations in Kyoto among foreign visitors. The seemingly never-ending mountain trails lead visitors under thousands of…
Japanese Cafe Customer Vows To Not Return After Staff Says: “First Time? Come Again!”, Gets Empathy Online
It’s a situation many of us can relate to. Going to a clothes store and feeling as if the sales clerk won’t leave you alone….
Luxury $50-A-Can “MAGURO-TORO BLACK LABEL” Tuna Restocked By Popular Demand
Even when you’re going for something more fancy, canned tuna is usually not one of those things on your shopping list which you’d consider a…
Karaoke Comes To Virtual Avatar Livestreaming in World’s First Smartphone-Based System
As Vtubers like Kizuna AI, Kaguya Luna, YuNi and others continue to bask in the spotlight, the Vtuber revolution has come to the masses through…
Meat-Loving Newlyweds Can Celebrate With 6-Foot-Tall Meat Wedding Cake Tower At Japanese BBQ Chain Kintan
To the delight of avid meat-lovers (and perhaps the chagrin of those who support a cruelty-free lifestyle), premium Japanese BBQ chain Kintan is offering a…
Tokyo DisneySea Names Its 8th Port “Fantasy Springs”; “Frozen,” “Tangled,” “Peter Pan” To Be Featured
Fantasy Springs On Tuesday, May 21st, Oriental Land Co., the company which operates Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea, finally announced the name of Tokyo DisneySea’s eighth…
Tomioka High School Dance Club Grads Energize Oreo’s Zany “Pandance” Commercial
Accomplishments of the Tomioka High School Dance Club If the name Tomioka High School Dance Club doesn’t ring a bell, you may know them as…
Prep School’s Clock Unsettles Passengers With An Eerie Additional 13th Hour
The Nishi-Funabashi branch of Waseda Yobikō 早稲田予備校 (Waseda Prep School), a major Tokyo cram school with a 60 year history, has a very large clock…
Yanagiya Tozaburo Introduces ‘Rakugo’ to the World
Written by Toru Matsugaki for JAPAN Forward Tozaburo Yanagiya, 42, is a storyteller with a drive to spread the word on rakugo, a traditional form…
Transparent Soy Sauce From Fundodai Goyo Creates A Clearly Different Culinary Experience
Ever since it opened for business at the dawn of the Meiji Era, Fundodai Goyo, Inc. has been making high quality soy sauce and miso…
Is Japan’s Instagenic Honeymoon Over? Plain “Jimi-Ben” Lunches May Indicate A Shift
Japan’s Insta-Bae Obsession Following global trends, Instagram has become hugely popular in Japan, with shops bending over backwards to serve up the most photogenic sweets…
Hinasushi, Known For All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Including Toro and Uni, Opens in Roppongi
If you want to eat sushi to your heart’s content when you visit Japan, you either need to have yen to spare or find a…
Cheering Stifled At “Cheering Format” Showings of Avengers: End Game in Japan
Japanese Moviegoing Culture Unlike movie theaters in many parts of the world where audiences often cheer and react quite vocally to the images on screen,…