Kawaii Japan Magazine
Giant eyes, glowing skin, sparkles and sticker sheets — inside purikura, Japan's beloved decorate-your-own photo booths. What they are, how a session works, and tips for your first time.
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Four million machines, one per 30 people, hot AND cold drinks, fresh eggs, hot ramen and the gloriously bizarre. Inside Japan's vending machine wonderland — and the trust and care behind it.
A bear that earns billions, a back-flipping pear, a samurai cat that revived a castle town. Meet yuru-chara — Japan's gloriously strange, impossibly cute mascot characters — and the culture behind the craze.
It is 2 a.m. in Tokyo and you are hungry. Within a few minutes' walk — guaranteed — there is a brightly lit little...
You hear it before you see it: a wall of plastic domes, a forest of chunky chrome handles, and the unmistakable ga...
Somewhere in almost every Japanese town, there used to be a tiny shop with a wooden door, a jar of penny sweets on...
Every summer, Japan transforms. Streets fill with lantern light. The air carries the scent of grilled corn and shave...
After months of planning and an embarrassing amount of candy consumption, we packed our very first PopnCandy Tokyo boxes.