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Virtual pets can play the genetic lottery, too: an introduction to the Tamagotchi Meets

DEJAPAN Staff / September 30, 2019

We tried owning first-gen Tamagotchis and other virtual pets when we were kids. They weren’t easy to look after. They […]

DEJAPAN Staff / September 25, 2019

Buying figures as a hobby can be fun – right up ’til you run out of shelf space. Collecting smaller

DEJAPAN Staff / September 19, 2019

When someone close to us passes away, like a parent or grandparent, we each choose to remember them in our

DEJAPAN Staff / September 16, 2019

How did Oshiri Tantei – an actual bum – ever become one of Japan’s most popular detective cartoon characters? It’s

DEJAPAN Staff / September 11, 2019

Same way that leaves turn from green to red, yellow and orange in autumn, we all change the makeup colours

DEJAPAN Staff / September 5, 2019

The bare minimum a body soap should do is leave you feeling fresh and clean. Added skin moisturising, yeah that’s

DEJAPAN Staff / September 2, 2019

Kyoto – the traditional, historical and pretty escape from Osaka’s loud neon life. If you want an escape from that,

If new Ningen Works inventions are anything to go by, we’ve all got the potential to be geniuses. Brainstorming upgraded

We could spend a year or more writing about Japanese sweets. And hey, maybe next year we’ll do that. Everything

For collectors and dedicated fans, sometimes getting hold of merch is total luck. Like when the item you want’s only

At some restaurants that offer a lot of meat options, you need to pay attention to which bit of an

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