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I never knew this but The Hungry Caterpillar was first printed in Japan because Eric Carle couldn’t find a printer in the U.S. who could create the unique pages and binding
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Shizuoka, which calls itself home to plastic model (puramo) makers like Bandai and Tamiya, are installing “puramonuments” around the city
asahi.com/articles/ASP3F…
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Interesting new development at Shinjuku’s giant kitty screen
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Yoshida is known for her creative use of analog hacks that replace digital effects. You can see more of her work here:
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Remembering the good old days when Hong Kong police were more this, and less this
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For the next game:
Players must remove the packaging around the conbini onigiri without damaging the seaweed
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You guys... Japan Post is rolling out these delivery robots and they’re too cute. This is the future I was promised ❤️
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Reporter: Demon Slayer is approaching Spirited Away at the box office. How do you feel?
Miyazaki: Well, that has nothing to do with me. Movie makers would be much better off if they stopped paying attention to box office sales.
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A huge shooting star lit up the skies last night over western Japan
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New Year’s goals
(Shirahone Hotspring, 1935
by Kasamatsu Shirō)
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Yachiyodo, a 110-year old Japanese marshmallow company, has found unlikely success in their fishmallow, which is proving popular at BBQs: yachiyodo.co.jp
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Shinjuku Station Southeast Plaza through the years 😭
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Kosuke Yasukawa, a practicing physician in the US, created this graphic that illustrates the gap in perceptions of COVID-19 symptoms between the public and doctors
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Artist Keita Sagaki’s ballpoint pen replica of a thousand yen bill. Currently on view at Daimaru Tokyo.
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Given all the bear attacks that have been happening in Japan, I suppose it was only a matter of time before authorities staged a drill
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Happy 33rd anniversary to one of my favorite Ghibli films, Kiki’s Delivery Service, which opened in theaters in Japan on July 29, 1989.
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It’s hard to overstate the significance of Ken Shimura for anyone who grew up watching Japanese TV in the 80s and 90s.
The only silver lining is that maybe more Japanese will begin to take the coronavirus more seriously now.
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Starbucks is celebrating 25 years in Japan by releasing a frappuccino unique to every single prefecture:
starbucks.co.jp/cafe/jimoto_fr…
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A cold front over the weekend dumped a large amount of snow on many parts of southern Japan. Here is Kyoto’s Kinkakuji
twitter.com/nhk_news/statu…
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Octopus tentacle earbuds. Available this month at a gashapon near you.
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A few years ago a pro-undergrounding group created this image of Hokusai’s Red Fuji with utility poles and power lines to show how ugly they are.
But it had the opposite effect. People loved the image.
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Can’t stop thinking about this cat table with a lid
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Wow - fashion magazine publisher Takarajima-sha took out full page ads in today’s Asahi, Yomiuri and Nikkei newspapers.
“No vaccine. No medicine
Do you expect us to fight with bamboo spears.
At this rate, politics will kill us”
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Because they invest in infrastructure twitter.com/christoq/statu…
スプタマ編集長。Founder and Editor of @SpoonTamago and @SpoonTamagoShop. Raised in Tokyo, based in Brooklyn.