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Masamichi Katayama (Wonderwall) Designer Vegetable Store Opens in Nezu, East Tokyo

  • Category:Gourmet
JAPAN TRENDS
 
Want your vegetables from somewhere with more personality than the usual supermarket or convenience store?
Tokyo has a new designer greengrocer’s where you can pick up some greens in a particularly stylish environment.
 
Located in Nezu, east Tokyo, which is known and much loved fo...

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Hello Kitty Cafe Coming to Osaka For a Limited Time!

  • Category:Cafe
ROCKET NEWS
 
Dear Daniel joins Hello Kitty to bring cuteness and love to a collection of themed meals and drinks.
When it comes to themed cafes in Japan, we’ve seen limited-time offerings for Sailor Moon, Naruto and even Pokémon, and while Sanrio characters have had their share of pop-up cafes t...

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‘Ultraman Orb’ Prequel Flies High in Streaming World

  • Category:Event
THE JAPAN NEWS
 
The latest drama in the Ultraman superhero drama series has been available to stream on Amazon Prime Video in Japan since Dec. 26.
The show, “ULTRAMAN ORB THE ORIGIN SAGA,” is a spin-off from and a prequel to “Ultraman Orb,” which was broadcast on the TV Tokyo network from July t...

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Indonesia, Japan Affirm Deeper Ties During Abe's Asian Tour

  • Category:Event
JAPAN TODAY
 
BOGOR, Indonesia — Japan and Indonesia on Sunday affirmed a deepening of economic and political ties during a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is using a four-nation tour of Asia to underscore his government’s role in countering China’s assertiveness in the South Chi...

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Toyota Announces New “Friendly Future” Concept Car, Concept-i

  • Category:Event
JAPAN TRENDS
 
Toyota has announced a new concept car, Concept-i. The name combines the Japanese character for “love” (ai) with the letter “i”. As this choice indicates, the car is inspired by the idea that future mobility technology should be intuitive and imbued with human warm.
Designed from t...

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Coca-Cola Japan Releases Milk Tea With Cherry and Sakura Blossom Flavours For Spring

  • Category:Event
ROCKET NEWS
 
Find out what this limited-edition beverage tastes like after the break!
With spring officially less than two months away in Japan, people are getting ready to dust off their picnic hampers, bring out their tarpaulin mats and start scouring the shelves for sakura-themed items to bri...

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Piko Taro Returns With New Song, I Like Orange Juice!

  • Category:Event
JAPAN TRENDS
 
Piko Taro, the alter ego of comedian Daimao Kosaka, rocked Japan and the world with his indelibly catchy “Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen (PPAP)” video in 2016. Having inspired so many imitators and boosted his career exorbitantly with advertising contracts, Piko Taro is back with a follow...

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Japanese High Schooler Awarded by Police Chief for Cleaning up Litter on City Street on Her Own

  • Category:Event
ROCKET NEWS
 
She alone collected 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of garbage!
Last week, a young high school girl from Saitama Prefecture received a certificate of thanks from the chief of police for her efforts to clean up litter from a portion of prefectural highway in her town.
On the evening of Dece...

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‘K’ Computer to Predict Torrential Rain

  • Category:Other
THE JAPAN NEWS
 
A project team including the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) and other institutions has succeeded in developing the basic technology to predict the coming of disastrous torrential rain in specific areas a...

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Awesomely Adorable Pikachu Cup Clinger Figures Add Some Poké-appeal To Your Beverages

  • Category:Souvenir
ROCKET NEWS
 
Six new designs offered showing the Pokémon star in moods ranging from fired up to love-struck.
During the holiday season, I took a trip back to my home town to visit friends and family, which really proved the truth of the old adage “The more the merrier.” Almost every day was an o...

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