JAPAN TRENDS
 Nissan has created a fun film of an eight-year-old giving his mom a very nice surprise.
Hinata and his mom take a drive in a Nissan Dayz HIghway.
Mrs. Masuda thinks she is going to be appearing in a marketing video but instead gets directed to a special car park where her family pro...

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JAPAN TODAY
 TOKYO —Japan will send a huge cache of plutonium—enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs—to the United States as part of a deal to return the material that was used for research, reports and officials said Tuesday.
The plutonium stockpile, provided by the U.S., Britain and France decades ...

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ROCKET NEWS
Looking for some cute kicks to get yourself ready for spring? Then it’s time to check out this collaboration between IROnna and Sanrio!
Sanrio hardly needs any introduction at this point—we assume that if you read RocketNews24, you probably know who owns the world’s cutest character, ...

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JAPAN TIMES
Makoto Yamauchi is taking comfort in a dizzying array of hangover cures, from clam elixirs to turmeric tonics, as Japan’s new year party season gets into full swing.
The bottled drinks are a multimillion-dollar business in Japan and ’tis the season for recovery tonics as millions turn...

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JAPAN TRENDS
The popular Q-pot Cafe is celebrating the start of 2016 — the year of the monkey in Japan — with some themed special items on their menu.
Available only from January 3rd to January 11th, the New Year menu includes chocolate banana cake, chocolate mousse, and more.
As always, the food...

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ROCKET NEWS
Can you hear the excited squeals of 90s kids around the world!?
In commemoration of the Pokémon trading card game’s 20th anniversary next year, the Pokémon Company has revealed that they will be reissuing starter sets of the first-generation cards originally sold in Japan in October 1...

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JAPAN TIMES
 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his resolve Friday for Japan to play a leading role globally in the “challenging” year of 2016, as the country plans to host a Group of Seven summit in May, a trilateral summit with China and South Korea and return to the U.N. Security Council as a...

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JAPAN TRENDS
American street artist DAAS has produced an awesome mural in
Takatsuki City, a suburb of Osaka.
Part of the Takatsuki Art Expo 2015, the mural was first featured on Street Art News.
The mural is depicts haniwa, the terracotta clay figures that were installed with burial mounds in the...

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ROCKET NEWS
What do you like to get from your coffee, relaxation or focus? Apparently, the type of beans can change the affect on your brain, but which does what?
Mmm…there’s nothing like the smell of a fresh cup o’ joe! That smell, however, is more than just a nice fragrance. Depending on the be...

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JAPAN TRENDS
The Japanese government has faith in soft power, hence all the “cool Japan” campaigns.
This might be J-Pop. It might be anime. It might be cuisine.
But there’s another unusual source of “cool” in Japan — toilets.
While the actual “Japanese” toilets (i.e. squat toilets) as they were o...

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