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This is a pencil: hand-drawn illustrations by Tomoya Mizoguchi

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

Hey, the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo aren’t all that far off, huh? Maybe living in Japan makes us heavily

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

We’ve all done it. Stood there in front of the mirror, holding our arms up. Looked, and looked, from every

We’ve gone over different types of figures before – but we didn’t cover Ultra Detail Figures. And with an epic

We’ve got a lot of love and respect for resellers. Buying all that cool stuff and not keeping it for

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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

Summer in Japan is… an experience. We’ve got loads of summer festivals and fireworks displays! It’s shaved ice season! And it’s