Starbucks releases an official green tea chai latte with special Japanese ingredients

Forget Baby Yoda, go the full Yoda with this unprecedented matcha drink.

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Kyoto study finds nearly 500 translation errors for foreign tourists, new guidelines released

Kyoto City Tourism Association wants the town to clean up its translation act.

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Practical Zelda Tears of the Kingdom merch is here to be Hyrule-helpful in your daily life【Pics】

And, of course, it looks really cool too.

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Japan’s video rental giant now rents wigs, so we tried them out【Photos】

Our fashionable reporter has never worn a wig before, and will she want to again after this?

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Japanese public toilet tours become popular with foreign tourists in Tokyo

Perfect Days and The Tokyo Toilet project see Shibuya’s public restrooms awash with visitors.

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Czech Republic makes multi-eyed mascot friend for Osaka’s multi-eyed Myaku-Myaku mascot

So happy together…

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Tokyo’s beckoning cat temple asks foreign tourists to stop writing on the beckoning cats they buy

Gotokuji claims the figurines are “sacred.”

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Starbucks Japan’s new Matcha Frappuccino: Brilliant beverage or drink disaster?

It looks like it contains apples, but it actually doesn’t.

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Japanese Lolita fashion designers create amazing Madoka Magica dresses

Real-world fashion one-ups magical girl anime in frill-count.

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Lots of Japanese parents want their kids to work for Nintendo, but not just for the money, survey says

Only one company was a more popular pick among parents and grandparents.

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Tokyo DisneySea’s new Fantasy Springs area: Peter Pan’s Never Land has the best ride of all

An attraction so good it’ll rival Space Mountain!

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Starbucks releases special matcha Frappuccino made with Japan’s first matcha leaves of the year

New matcha lineup spruces up green tea beverages with hatsutsumi leaves.

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New vending machines at Shinjuku Station emit scent, play projection mapping with your purchase

The Bench has the most exciting, futuristic vending machines in Tokyo.

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Japanese man tells friend to wear suit to wedding party, so he comes as Mobile Suit Gundam

Finds time to fight Evangelion while celebrating friend’s marriage.

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Evangelion creator says there might be more Eva anime to come

But Hideaki Anno isn’t sure he wants to be the one to direct it.

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Mt. Fuji-blocking screen installed as response to bad tourist manners to be in place by next week

After initial delay, plan to block view of “Fuji Lawson” is back on track.

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Hidden history, retro cafes, and a shoe shrine on Asakusa bus loop【Tokyo Loop Buses】

There’s so much more to Tokyo’s Asakusa area than Sensoji Temple.

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Japan now has a convenience store that can be towed by a car【Video】

What’s more convenient than a convenience store that can come to you?

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Spirited Away witch Yubaba takes over containers of one of Japan’s favorite puddings

Studio Ghibli star pushes Humphrey Bogart out of the way.

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Mt. Fuji hiking trail reservation system and advance payment details released

Climbing Mt. Fuji is getting more expensive and more complicated from this summer.

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