Japanese hotel’s adorable goblin sweets are beautiful inside and out
Every year, Japan celebrates Setsubun (節分, “seasonal division”) on Feb 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, one day before the start of Spring according to the Japanese…
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Enjoy your 2020 Christmas chicken in a new way at the national Japan egg buffet in Kichijoji
Christmas in Japan is all about chicken. Specifically, the seasoned, deep-fried, crispy variety found in KFC. With Turkey being so rare it’s almost of mythical…
Pokemon fans will jump at the chance to win Tik Tok’s Greedant Christmas jumper
Pika-clause, or Santa-chu depending on wherever in the world you’re based, is delivering an awesome Christmas present to all of us on December 25th with…
Mr. Donut’s Pokemon Lucky Bag is the only way to start 2021
Oshōgatsu お正月, the New Year period in Japan, is a time to be spent together with family enjoying numerous special events. From the first shrine…
Experience a fluffy white wonderland this winter with Family Mart’s latest latte
A tide of media describing 2020 as a “lost year” is rapidly rising across the world. While certainly lockdown living and the state of general…
Impact from awesome photo of two cats high-fiving breaks Japanese internet
There’s a scene in the 1994 movie Predator where alien annihilating adonis Arnold Schwarzeneggar and his old friend Carl Weathers, biceps a bulging, perform what…
My strangely enjoyable experience staying in Japan’s Henn Na Hotel
Many readers will sympathize with my predicament. It’s the day before an early morning flight out of Haneda Airport. My place is located centrally enough…
Visiting Yufuin, Kyushu’s haven of tranquility and charm
Say Kyushu and onsen in the same sentence and everyone thinks “Beppu”! Beppu is a sprawling onsen town located on Japan’s southernmost island. It is…
Restaurant’s original Murasaki Imo soup is the perfect Japanese winter warmer
Winter is coming. You can feel it in the crisp, cool air. You can see it in the windows of Japanese coffee shops displaying images…
Kimetsu No Yaiba’s elite Demon Slayers are now Tamagotchi
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is currently Japan’s most popular anime. It’s so popular that even the Japanese Prime Minister appears to be quoting it….
Who is Miyazaki Prefecture’s favorite Pokemon?
Over the past few years, the Pokemon Company has been working with different prefectures to install a series of “Poke lids”. Poke lids are manhole…
Japanese convenience store creates science defying hot ice cream drink!
With summer over and chillier weather creeping in, ice cream’s out as consumers seek warmer offerings to wrap their hands around. Well, Japan’s outlier convenience…
New Pokemon Shirts designed by famous Japanese illustrator are the business!
At the start of 2019, glib businessmen’s lives were changed when the Pokemon Company and Silicon Valley based dress shirt maker, Original Stitch, began collaborating…
Spookily delicious Polteageist tea set is appearing at Pokémon Cafes across Japan
October is tea time in Japan. You know this because it’s the month when restaurants and Japanese style bars – Izakaya, swap out customary gratis…
Life Sciences in Japan: in desperate need of resuscitation
Japan occupies an unusual space in the global imagination. At once a futuristic nation of innovation and robotics, and simultaneously, for those on the inside,…