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FUNKY FRUIT: young Japanese fashion in a blender

DEJAPAN Staff / January 22, 2018

Are you ready to get funky? Fans of J-fashion brands like Listen Flavor, Candy Stripper, 390 Mart and Spinns are […]

DEJAPAN Staff / January 18, 2018

Our non-stop search for weird, cute and interesting Japanese brands leads us to Dreams. We’re still awake – that’s the name

DEJAPAN Staff / January 15, 2018

Carddass. A word that fans of Bandai franchises should know, even if they’re not 100% sure what it means. It’s

DEJAPAN Staff / January 11, 2018

A new year’s when your luck for the next 12 months is decided. Many people visit a temple or shrine

It’s Coming of Age Day (January 8th), Japan’s yearly celebration of young people reaching adulthood. To mark the day, we’re gonna

The start of a new year’s always busy. Loads of Japanese people head to their local shrine or temple, to

In early June 2017, kawaii zakka chain Swimmer shocked everyone by announcing they’d be closing in January 2018. It wasn’t

DEJAPAN Staff / December 28, 2017

Hi! Kei from DEJAPAN here again, bringing you… well, not exactly another contest. This is a bit exclusive, but we’re

DEJAPAN Staff / December 28, 2017

Every day, we learn new names for things in Japanese. Some of them are… well, we don’t think anyone asked

DEJAPAN Staff / December 25, 2017

Merry Christmas! Or whatever you celebrate. (Or happy holidays, if you’re not religious. It’s all cool with us.) Christmas in

DEJAPAN Staff / December 21, 2017

The people of Osaka have a brand new bag. Trend-setting backpack and tote bag brand Anello recently opened their global flagship

DEJAPAN Staff / December 18, 2017

Finding Japanese online shops that sell weird stuff is like our hobby. We’re always looking for the strangest inventions and