Extra bullet trains at peak times and new early-morning/late-night departures will make it easier to zoom from one region of Japan to another.

Extra bullet trains at peak times and new early-morning/late-night departures will make it easier to zoom from one region of ...

Priced at 311 yen (US$2), it’s a great new snack to have on your radar when you’re feeling peckish, and we reckon it’s so good it might just become as popular as the viral 7-Eleven pancakes.

In addition to the previously released Evangelion Unit-01 and Unit-00 lures, the vibrant red Unit-02 has also been added and is certain to make both anime otaku and rainbow trout go crazy. They also ...

Female cleaning staff working in in-operation men’s restrooms aren’t an uncommon occurrence in Japan. Clean System, a Japanese cleaning services company, says that its data shows that women make up ...

But apparently Masami has been a good little girl, because it turns out that she, and all fellow fans, actually are getting a new source of Joyful Medley joy, as Starbucks Japan has, very quietly, ...

The Maekawas were a samurai family who ran a “ kakeya “, a business dealing in currency exchange. As such, the storehouse was used to store gold coins (“ryo”), so thick, multi-layered walls and ...

Looking at the Japanese kanji characters for Yunotsu Onsen, 温泉津温泉, they kind of resemble a hot spring sandwich, where you have the character tsu /津 (meaning “harbor”) surrounded on both sides by the ...

Toto’s Washlet is washing more and more backsides in the States, and there are likely two big reasons why the U.S. has started liking them for when it goes number two.

This is the 30th time the Kanji of the Year was decided, based on votes from people across the country to decide which character encapsulated the year best. This year the kanji for “bear” was elected ...

There is a little more visibility about it in Japan through, and you may see restrooms labeled as suitable for ostomates using either the Japanese word “オストメト” or pictogram of an abdomen with a cross ...

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