Casey Baseel
Editor at SoraNews24
Editor for SoraNews24, where I also write about Japan, language, anime, video games, and food. Follow me...to victory (and probably beer)!
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Nagoya Stop and Stand Corps is looking to change escalator etiquette. Just standing around doing nothing at work is often a good way o get yourself fired, but in one city in Japan, it’s gainful employment. Decades ago, Japanese society came to an unspoken agreement about escalator etiquette. In Tokyo and east Japan, if an escalator is wide enough, you’re supposed to stand on the left, and walk on the right.
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Masters of their crafts in Tokyo and Kyoto team-up for a very unusual, but very appealing, innovation. It might be hard to believe, but matcha sweets are, for the most part, actually a relatively recent addition to the Japanese culinary scene. Yes, green tea ice cream has been a thing for a long time, and a handful of traditional Japanese confectionaries used matcha, but for the most part matcha was a beverage, not a flavoring.
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Even the bundle of this three-piece bundle is a treat for fans of the anime icon. There’s quite a bit of gift-giving that goes on in My Neighbor Totoro. Mei’s desire to deliver a present to her mom in the hospital kicks off the Studio Ghibli anime’s final-act crisis, and Mei and Satsuki cement their friendship with Totoro by giving him an umbrella while they’re waiting for their buses in the rain.
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Shizuoka seaside town offers an amazing experience even if you’re not staying overnight. Living in Tokyo, you tend to get in a pattern of thinking in terms of train lines for cool places to go in your free time. Doing too much of that, though, means you’ll miss out on some awesome outside-the-train-line-defined box, as our Japanese-language reporter Seiji Nakazawa was recently reminded.
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soranews24.com | Casey Baseel
Fresh air, meat, and so, so much darkness. Tokyo’s rush-hour trains feel shockingly crowded to tourists and other new arrivals in the city, but eventually most locals get used to them…but not all of them. Even after 15 years of living in Tokyo, the train ride to/from the office is still a source of daily dread for our Hokkaido-born Japanese-language reporter Ahiruneko.
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Today's reason to go to Tochigi: https://t.co/IfBzX4jzao
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