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Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri Walk into any Japanese convenience store and you will always find a shelf dedicated to one item:...
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Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri

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Walk into any Japanese convenience store and you will always find a shelf dedicated to one item: onigiri. The onigiri, often translated as “rice ball”, literally means “grasping a fistful” and is in many ways Japan's original fast food, before fast food. Quick to
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$450 for a School Bag?! Every year, around March, a curious social custom occurs in Japanese families. Parents of kids...
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$450 for a School Bag?!

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Every year, around March, a curious social custom occurs in Japanese families. Parents of kids entering elementary school visit the grandparents and gingerly tread the topic of buying the kids a very expensive item: a randoseru. And gingerly they must tread. The randoseru, a...
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From the Ashes of the World's First App Store Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part article. Read Part 1 here. Part 1 Summary: Brother...
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From the Ashes of the World's First App Store

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Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part article. Read Part 1 here. Part 1 Summary: Brother Industries built Takeru, the world's first software vending machine that let users download software from a server. While revolutionary, it wasn't as huge a success as
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The World's First App Store Editor’s Note: This article ends on a cliffhanger. The next part goes out in a week. I will start...
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The World's First App Store

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Editor’s Note: This article ends on a cliffhanger. The next part goes out in a week. I will start with an honest admission. I didn’t set out to write about the world’s first app store. I set out to write about Brother printers. But
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Emoji Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis. Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for...
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Emoji

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Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis. Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for years and see what others exist. You will soon see 🍡 🈸 🍙 and other weird-looking pictures. What the hell are these things, and why are they in
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Coffee in a Can Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences. When they...
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Coffee in a Can

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Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences. When they happen to some people though they end up becoming multi-billion dollar businesses. This is the story of Japan’s canned coffee. One finds at least one vending machine in almost every...
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A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 3) Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of...
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A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 3)

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Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of onsens and the science behind them. In this article we take a deep-dive into the business of onsens. Onsen as a Business Despite all the hype in Part 1
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A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 2) Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part post. Part 1 can be found here. The Hot Spring...
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A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 2)

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Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part post. Part 1 can be found here. The Hot Spring Act of 1948 Lest you think any old well could be an onsen, the Japanese government has very clear rules on what can be called an onsen. These are
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A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs Editor’s Note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a...
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A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs

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Editor’s Note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a three-part article. We thank our avid reader “S” who suggested this topic and graciously helped with our research. Could a nation’s bathing culture be influenced by
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A peek into Japan's Convenience Stores (Part 2) Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part article. It will mostly make sense even without...
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A peek into Japan's Convenience Stores (Part 2)

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Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part article. It will mostly make sense even without reading Part 1, but you would be missing out on a lot of context! Before we start, let's take a quick detour to talk about that word in the
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A peek into Japan's Convenience Stores Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a...
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A peek into Japan's Convenience Stores

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Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a two-part article. All across Japan, one sight remains ubiquitous – the convenience store. A far, far cry from their American cousins, convenience stores in Japan are without...
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A peek inside Japan's largest Dagashi store Every morning, 67-year Hideyuki Akiyama drives to his store along the rural roads of Okayama in...
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A peek inside Japan's largest Dagashi store

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Every morning, 67-year Hideyuki Akiyama drives to his store along the rural roads of Okayama in Western Japan. Today is no different. A line of excited customers queuing up before the shutters are open. “Disneyland isn’t our land of dreams, this is!” says one 20-something woman.
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The shoe that became a sock. And then a shoe again. Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the...
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The shoe that became a sock. And then a shoe again.

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Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the start line of the marathon in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Shizo was carrying the hopes, dreams, and pride of Japan, a country attempting to become a “modern” nation. There
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The Surprising Roots of Japan's Indian Curry It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached...
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The Surprising Roots of Japan's Indian Curry

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It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached out! We are now restarting our articles, though we might not always write once a week. If we don't think it's interesting, we
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A peek into the world of Japan's electric rice cookers It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached...
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A peek into the world of Japan's electric rice cookers

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It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached out! We are now restarting our articles, though we might not always write once a week. If we don't think it's interesting, we
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