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Suntory Has Clear, No-alcohol, Plastic-bottled Beer So You Can Drink at Work Without Being Judged

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Product was created to meet customers’ “various needs,” in this case enjoying the taste of beer while in the middle of your shift.
As someone who occasionally gets paid to drink beer, I understand the appeal of knocking back a cold one during the workday. Most employers, though, don...

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Coca-Cola Releases Special Anime-design Bottle Just for Japan

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Designed by the studio behind the Fate anime franchise, the bottle is exclusive to one region of the country.
Over the past few years, Coca-Cola has shown a willingness to mix things up with its visual design in Japan. Sure, the brand’s iconic logo and distinctive shade of red are a...

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Georgia Canned Coffee Printed with Manga Scenes Featuring Characters From Weekly Shonen Jump

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
One of Coca-Cola’s bestselling products in Japan is its Georgia series of canned coffee. Now Georgia has teamed up with the manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump to produce a lineup of exclusive new cans with packaging featuring iconic manga titles.
The revamped Georgia coffee drink ca...

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Japanese Pizza Chain Makes Headlines with Weirdly Wonderful Fish-shaped Pizza

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ROCKET NEWS
 
The feast inside this fish’s belly is just as surprising as its pie-crust casing.
In Japan, ordering a pizza can be a mind-bending experience.
With delivery drivers turning up on reindeer bikes and offering romantic kabe-don wall pounds at your door, the pizza world can be a topsy-t...

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Rivalry Between Mushrooms and Bamboo Shoots in Japan as People Vote For Their Favourite Chocolate

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Jun Matsumoto from boy band group Arashi is leading the new campaign.
Ever since they first rode over the horizon and into the hearts – and stomachs – of customers in the 1970s, Kinoko no Yama (Mushroom Mountain) and Takenoko no Sato (Bamboo Shoot Village), have been battling it out...

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Japanese Candy Factory Plays “Thank You” Constantly Over Speakers So its Snacks Will Taste Good

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Video shows how 1,500 thank yous per minute go into the making of Tamago Boro.
Talk to just about any successful Japanese businessperson, and they’ll tell you how important gratitude is. No matter how good a product it makes, a company can’t succeed without the support of its employ...

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Suntory Releases New Pepsi Soft Drinks Only Available in Japan

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ROCKET NEWS
 
The three new beverages have been developed to specifically suit Japanese tastes.
After bringing us mouthwatering limited-edition flavours like Sakura and Christmas cake, it’s been quiet on the Pepsi front in Japan lately. As it turns out, that’s simply because they were hard at wor...

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SoraNews24 Finds Its New Favourite Sweet: Hershey’s Japanese Matcha Chocolate Ice Cream

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ROCKET NEWS
 
This Hershey’s chocolate matcha ice cream will have you salivating.
The whole world seems to be in love with matcha right now, which is good news for green-tea lovers as big-name brands have been getting on board with the craze, dousing everything from McFlurries to Kit Kats and eve...

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Coffee Milkshakes from McDonald's Japan

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - McDonald’s might not have a reputation for culinary innovation in its home country of the U.S., but to succeed in Japan, you have to keep things fresh with a constant rollout of new temptations to attract easily bored Japanese fast food fans. For example, the orthodox milksh...

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Gov. Promotes Safety of Fukushima Foods in Europe

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
LONDON (Jiji Press) — Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori kicked off Thursday a tour of Britain and France to publicize the safety of foods from his prefecture.
In London on Thursday, Uchibori met with officials of British importing companies to sell Fukushima products and develop thei...

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