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Watching and waiting until the final petal falls: sakura season in Osaka, spring 2019

By mid-April, in many areas of Japan the sakura’s come and gone. That’s true for Osaka and the rest of […]

We get ‘hey DEJAPAN team, can you help me buy stuff from this Japanese website?’ emails all the time. Alllllll

Maybe you’re scratching your head at that post title, like Mickey Mouse standing there wondering where the hell Pluto ran

Seki city, in Gifu prefecture, is known across Japan as the ‘cutlery capital’. (In the same way Imabari city in

In November 2018, we told you about the Ultimate NTO natto mixing machine. The ‘Ultimate’ food mixer range is back,

At some point in our lives in Japan, we’ve all asked ourselves an important question: Could we take down a

On the list of ‘most iconic manga and anime ever’ (and ‘most iconic yuri manga and anime ever’), Rose of

There’s a new show in town, that town being our home (and technically a city): Osaka, Japan. And it’s a

Some trends that start in Japan are hard to explain. Like super fake tan ‘ganguro’ style, or wearing herbal pads

Not all Japanese comedy’s performed by manzai duos, or solo superstars. Some of Japan’s longest-running gags need a whole team

When we think of sushi, we think of those conveyor belt restaurants. Colour-coded plates of raw fish on rice, going

Think back to when you first became an anime weeb. How long ago was it? It’s okay if you can’t