Dress Up Your Canine or Feline as a Samurai
Ditch the cutesy puppy or kitty sweaters and get your pet into something more noble—like a samurai costume!
The Biggest Temple You've Never Heard Of
While many regions of Japan are world-renowned for their shrines and temples, sometimes it's the ones you've never heard of that leave the biggest impression.
Thomas the Post-Apocalyptic Tank Engine
A Japanese sculptor and model-maker going by the name Y Nakajima hacked the multi-legged Combat Creature toy to give birth to this laser-shooting, post-apocalyptic monstrosity.
Seal Up Your Phone & Achieve Your Goals
Need help holding yourself back from your phone? Japanese high school entrepreneurs have come up with a simple way to free up your time with the Smart Phone Sealing Taro.
10 Oddly Wonderful Items in Japan's Drugstores
Outside Japan, can you find a product similar to one of the 10 listed here in a drugstore?
Kicking It Old School
If you happen to be in Kyoto around the turn of the New Year, you won't want to miss this spectacle of men and women dressed in Heian-style robes playing their version of soccer.
Japan's Wackiest Health Magazine
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Japanese pharmacy company Aisei publishes a health magazine that does everything in its power to grab your attention.
Candy Nails?
Cylindrical Umaibo snacks have been around since 1979, but this may be the first time anyone has tried to make real nail art out of them!
My Husband Does My Makeup
Grace from Texan in Tokyo gives in to a reader request and lets her husband Ryosuke do her makeup. Hilarity ensues.
9 Weird Japanese Christmas Trees
Tired of the tinsel? Are ornaments too ordinary? How about decorating your tree with some of these unique ornaments?
Japan's 9 Weirdest Face Packs
Why not go all-out and have some cosplay-style fun while you're working on your complexion?
This No-Face will Pluck at Your Heart Strings
Famed Ghibli character apparently couldn’t cut it making movies, seems to have resorted to busking to get by.
Want a Cardboard Car?
Despite its sleek look, this car is actually made out of cardboard! Just don't try to take it for a spin in the rain.
Take a Seat, Sliced Cheese!
There's a new pre-sliced lunch food in Japanese supermarkets, and it's so soft it melts in your mouth.
Bouldering + Karaoke = Boulkara
A Japanese operator of karaoke chains is combining bouldering with karaoke to create an entirely new and grueling activity called "boulkara."
Alone this Christmas? You Don't Have to Be!
Thanks to manufacturer Mega House, you can enjoy a Christmas date with a famous Japanese anime voice actress.
How Japan Deals with Digestive Problems
Even the land of the rising sun occasionally has stomach problems. Between the language barrier and the sheer amount of medicines available, such delicate situations can be a lot to digest. We're here to help!
We Wish You a Cosplay Christmas
Following the first truly mass-scale success of Halloween in Shibuya in 2014, a number of revelers decided to carry on the cosplay tradition at Christmas.
