Cleaning like you’ve never seen: ultrasonic wave mini washers
If you’re kinda clumsy like we are, laundry day comes around too often. Wearing something white’s asking for trouble. Same
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Culture Shock
Culture Shock
LINE Clova wireless smart speakers
LINE: the smartphone app Japan can’t live without. There’s a LINE feature for nearly everything now. Music, messaging and free
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FC Real Bristol: dress like a (foot)baller
Support a football team that doesn’t exist, and you’ll never be let down on match day. Wave your scarf in
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Flavour of the day: Breath Palette toothpaste
Think about toothpaste for a second. Put that fresh, minty taste in your mind. Now, try and imagine brushing your
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Japan’s crazy butt bags: let’s get to the bottom of this trend
We could make a real bad joke here about the safest places to keep your stuff. But this isn’t a
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Spoiler alert: The funniest Japanese names for Disney movies
Some movie names don’t survive the translation from English to Japanese. ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ somehow became ‘Bus Man’. The whole ‘Fast
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Rooting for the underdog, rabbit, and cat: less well-known Sanrio characters
The 2018 Sanrio Character Ranking marked the 33rd time they’d asked us all to vote. When we posted this, voting
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Chill from the top down: forehead cooling pads
Too hot, can’t sleep. Too hot, can’t sleep. Repeat all summer – unless you’ve got an ice cold trick up
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PenLa penlights: shine bright like your idols
A wota without glowsticks is like… a duck without a quack. Invisible. Easy to miss. There’s no way you’d be
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K-pop group goods you can only get from Japan: BTS, TWICE, EXO and more
Japan loves K-Pop as much as you do. That’s why they call it the Hallyu Wave – the thing about
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