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While fans of the Capcom video game franchise Street Fighter are stereotypically male, now female aficionados can get their hands on two official sporty lingerie sets based on the characters of Chun-Li and Cammy White.
These two new Street Fighter lingerie sets don’t come cheap, th...

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Designers claim heart-meltingly cute zippered pouches are as soft as marshmallows.
Pouches are supposed to be a zero-net gain relationship for their owners. You can’t take anything out of a pouch that you didn’t first put in it, so really there’s no way to come out ahead in your dea...

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Just in time for summer vacation, the Japanese P.E. uniform gets transformed into something for grown-ups.
Japan is entering its rainy season right now, but just on the other side of the that is the part of summer made for spending time at the pool and beach. So Tokyo-based swimwear...

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Enjoy samurai-inspired fashion year-round with this new lineup of lightweight Japanese-style garments.
The heavy-coated drop-shoulder silhouette has been a favourite winter choice for fashionable customers of Japanese company Trove since their line of modernised haori half-coats was...

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Will followers of social media personalities buy anything that they recommend or wear? More and more apparel makers are betting they will as they forge tie-ups with these “influencers” — people with the power to sway the masses through Twitter, Instagram and other social media — ...

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Everyone’s favorite creators of chindogu (strange and “useless” gadgets) have done it again: made something we didn’t even realize we needed.
Thanko’s latest arrival is the Smaneck Smartphone Hands-free Neck Holder, which is not a necklace we expect to see on the streets of Aoyama ...

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Since their 2005 debut, music group Perfume has been steadily pumping out the hits with songs including “Linear Motor Girl” and “Polyrhythm.” Now twelve years later, members Nocchi, A-chan and Kashiyuka make the jump from aural to olfactory to celebrate their namesake with an origi...

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Clever alterations make this a better choice than anything hanging in your boyfriend’s closet.
Japanese and Western fashion preferences don’t always perfectly align with one another. However, there is some overlap in tastes, and you’ll find plenty of people in both regions who think...

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Japan is famous for its toilets. Japan is also famous for its crafts. So why not combine the two? Well, someone did.
 
Japanese toilets are somewhat renowned for their technology ingenuity, from the heated seats to the multitude of buttons and panels that offer a host of functions ...

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 At a glance, Japan’s roadways would seem plenty dangerous: a high pedestrian count, non-existent bike lanes, an increasingly elderly population behind the wheel, Pokémon Go. But despite the slew of danger-making variables, the nation’s streets are becoming safer, recording fewer t...

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