May 02, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Studio Ghibli releases crystal glass paperweights featuring Totoro and the Catbus Sparkly new range will hold down your papers and lift your spirits with anime charm. Paperwork can be a significant source of stress for any student, worker or bill payer, but now there’s a way to ...
May 02, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Sega opening 65th anniversary store in downtotn Tokyo with deep-cut game merch 60-ish birthday celebration is coming to Shibuya. Sega is in a pretty good spot these days. After years of being little more than a sleeper hit outside Japan, the Yakuza/Like a Dragon franchise is ...
May 02, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Viral tweet suggests Japanese convenience store ripping off customers with donuts, so we investigate Photo shows Family Mart chocolate donut looking nothing like its packaging, but was that by design? It’d be an exaggeration to say that Japan’s love affair with its convenience stores is over, but ...
May 02, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Lipton releases… Pudding Milk Tea in Japan?!? Lipton caters to the Japanese market with an exclusive new dessert beverage. Lipton has come a long way since it was founded by Sir Thomas Lipton in Scotland in 1871, expanding to become known as a...
May 01, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Shinto shrine will bless your bike helmet and give you a sacred bike helmet stamp Pray to get ahead or to keep your head. Bicycle helmets have really taken off recently. In the months leading up to Japan’s stricter cycling violation penalties, I noticed many more people around m...
May 01, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Bandai cancels gacha/blind-buy system for anime cosmetics, will let fans choose what they buy Reversal of policy for new Chara Cosme releases follows survey showing immense dislike for randomized merch purchases. Bandai is one of Japan’s biggest anime and video game publishers, which doveta...
May 01, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Retro-style Evangelion T-shirts coming to Uniqlo sister brand GU[Photos] Vintage-look shirts celebrate the original vintage of the landmark anime series. As one of the most popular anime series of all time, Evangelion has had plenty of remasters and visual upgrades over...
May 01, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Only five branches of Japan’s beef bowl giant Matsuya serve milk shakes, but how do they taste? Matsuya makes the step from beefy bowls to milky drinks, but only at select locations for now. Hamburgers and milk shakes have been happily coexisting on fast food restaurant menus for generations…...
May 01, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japan’s Mister Donut Japan tries its hand at Taiwanese-style street food donuts Do they live up to the hype of their Taiwanese inspiration? Taiwan has a bustling street food scene, and some of the more popular items that’ve risen to prominence are the milk donuts covered gener...
Apr 30, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Police in Japan summoned to deal with bank intruder…who is also a deer[Video] Local residents thought a robbery was in progress when they saw police cars outside the bank, but something even more unexpected was going on. For the most part, Japan is a very safe country. Howev...
Apr 30, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Live-action Ghibli Princess Mononoke stage play tickets are now on sale Advance tickets for the latest Studio Ghibli screen-to-stage anime adaptation show up earlier than expected. For a group of artists so strongly associated with a single medium, anime films, Studio ...
Apr 30, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japan enters Golden Week vacation period, survey shows one in three plan to ride it out at home Japan’s all-for-fun spring holiday season is a little tarnished these days. Japan has three major vacation periods, but two of them come with social obligations. For both Oshogatsu (the New Year’s ...
Apr 30, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Studio Ghibli releases new anime keychains that are like miniature figurines Special collection includes the Spirited Away train that lights up at the push of a button. In Japan, keychains are hardly ever dull and boring, and right now Studio Ghibli is showing us just how g...
Apr 30, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japan’s new Pokémon jackets give you the look and powers of the Kanto starter trio Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle jackets won’t be available in stores, though. Over the years, there’s been quite a lot of Pokémon fashion for fans to wear. But while most Poké-pparel is only co...
Apr 29, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- War in Iran threatening Japan’s pudding production If you don’t end the war, you can’t have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don’t end the war?! There are few desserts as beloved in Japan as pudding, though I always have to go throu...
Apr 29, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Tokyo store makes you to pass a quiz in order to buy Pokémon cards as part of anti-scalper policy As new shipment of Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion packs comes in, Bic Camera makes a new rule. In a perfect world, the launch of a new Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion would be a time of un...
Apr 29, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Dorayaki from 89-year-old Japanese confectionery shop is one of the best sweets hidden in Tokyo Filled with a special “phantom butter” from Calpis, you won’t find a treat like this anywhere else in Japan. If there’s one thing we love as much as the bright lights and modern convenience of Tok...
Apr 29, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- An interview with Evangelion’s composer, Shiro Sagisu Our anime-loving musician reporter sits down for a talk with an anime music legend. Two of our Japanese-language reporter Seiji Nakazawa’s favorite things in life are music and anime. So when he ch...
Apr 29, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Make-them-yourself Pokémon frappes arrive at Japanese convenience stores, can be mixed at home too Family Mart’s Pokémon Pokopia dessert drinks are supposed to be mixed in-store, but there’s an alternative. Japanese convenience store Family Mart gave us not just one, but two reasons to stop by o...
Apr 29, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Finnish design brand Iittala partners with Pokémon for a golden first collaborative tableware set The brand’s Origo line of bold-patterned tableware makes for a shockingly good partner with the world’s favorite Pokémon. Finnish design brand Iittala, originally founded as a glassware company in ...
