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As long as you can remember to chew, you can reap the purported benefits of this gum.
New from Lotte, the company that brought us gum based on that game with the guy who wore the hat, and uh, cookies like those little grey Australian things with chocolate, comes a gum that is suppos...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - While Uniqlo can trace its corporate lineage back to 1949, it only opened its first store in 1984, and it didn’t really start taking off in popularity until after the turn of the millennium. Early on, Uniqlo’s most loyal customers were students and young adults with a tight ...

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Travelers to Japan will soon be able shop duty-free as soon as they land, eliminating the need to carry heavy purchases on-board beforehand.  
Narita International Airport, Japan’s predominant international airport, is about to become the first airport in Japan to receive duty-free ...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
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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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
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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JAPAN TRENDS
 
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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