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Flavours made for grown-ups: Japan’s ‘adult’ drinks, candy, and snacks

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

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 18, 2017

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

DEJAPAN Staff / December 14, 2017

Fashions in Japan – especially in Harajuku and Shibuya – are often ahead of the curve. Think like… mori girls,

DEJAPAN Staff / December 11, 2017

Being a cat seems super easy, from the way some house cats act all day. Lie in a sunbeam, meow,

DEJAPAN Staff / December 7, 2017

The winter months in Japan aren’t as cold as in some other countries. Well, it depends which bit of Japan

DEJAPAN Staff / November 30, 2017

Japan’s got this image of being… kinda… stressed out. All the time. You’ve heard stories of salarymen working 14-hour days,

DEJAPAN Staff / November 27, 2017

Pokemon Centres have saved our Pokemon (and our butts) many, many times – and they’re real-world lifelines for Poke-fans around

DEJAPAN Staff / November 20, 2017

We’ve been reading up on the fashion resale market. Why were we doing that, and not watching anime, or collecting