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For everything you didn’t think of yet: unique lifestyle goods by King Jim

The reigning champion for strange-but-useful home/office supplies is King Jim. You thought BIBILAB was weird… you thought Dreams Inc. was […]

If you want anime-themed clothes, accessories and random lifestyle goods, you check out Cospa. Merch that anime fans can’t live

Perk up your face, in what feels like no time at all. Take time off (your skincare routine) The name

Y’know those cute designs you see all over Japanese goods? There’s a high chance they came from the mind (and sketchpad)

If you’re kinda clumsy like we are, laundry day comes around too often. Wearing something white’s asking for trouble. Same

LINE: the smartphone app Japan can’t live without. There’s a LINE feature for nearly everything now. Music, messaging and free

Support a football team that doesn’t exist, and you’ll never be let down on match day. Wave your scarf in

Think about toothpaste for a second. Put that fresh, minty taste in your mind. Now, try and imagine brushing your

We could make a real bad joke here about the safest places to keep your stuff. But this isn’t a

Some movie names don’t survive the translation from English to Japanese. ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ somehow became ‘Bus Man’. The whole ‘Fast

The 2018 Sanrio Character Ranking marked the 33rd time they’d asked us all to vote. When we posted this, voting

Too hot, can’t sleep. Too hot, can’t sleep. Repeat all summer – unless you’ve got an ice cold trick up