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Enjoy a weekend trip to Thailand for less than $50? We show you how【Photos】
Our penny-pinching reporter shows you how to travel on a tight budget and still have an amazing trip. With coronavirus restrictions in Japan finally easing, international travel is finally becoming a...
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New Mint Chocolate Burger is a crime against choc mint lovers【Taste Test】
The addition of Oreos doesn’t make it any better. Some food trends have come and gone over the years, but one that remains firmly on the scene is the craze for all things mint chocolate. It’s an...
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The McDonald’s Hokkaido Salmon Burger is a sell-out hit…outside of...
Join us as we track down the elusive burger to find out if it’s worth the hype. Our Japanese-language reporter Ikuna Kamezawa has been travelling the world recently, and during her travels she’s been...
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Our Japanese language reporter gets lucky with Vietnam McDonald’s Prosperity...
Live long and McProsper, at McDonald’s Vietnam. Some readers may know that our Japanese-language reporter Ikuna Kamezawa is in the process of touring McDonald’s branches around the world to try their...
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The best cosplayers from the Isshoni Tanoshimimashou otaku event in...
College campus turns into a space for cosplayers, anime enthusiasts, and Japanese food fans. SoraNews24’s Indonesian correspondent Aqil Rahmansyah is an otaku, with a deep passion for anime and video...
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Visiting Sushiro in Laos, but not that Sushiro…probably
Something’s a little fishy here… Our reporter Ikuna Kamezawa has been traveling around Southeast Asia for a while now, and as a result, she’s been getting more and more homesick for some Japanese...
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Trying Yoshinoya for the first time in his life, is our Indonesian reporter...
Our overseas correspondent’s first experience with Japan’s beef bowl king. Our Indonesia-based correspondent Aqil Rahmansyah is full of enthusiasm for learning about Japan. For example, when his...
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The best cosplayers from Chibicon, Indonesia’s summertime anime...
Our Indonesian otaku makes the trip to Surabaya for the otaku culture celebration. Earlier this month, our Indonesia-based otaku reporter Aqil Rahmansyah hopped on a train. His destination: Chibicon....
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Burger King’s new all-cheese The Real Cheese Burger looks crazy, sort of...
Burger King Thailand’s new sandwich grabs our eyes and opens our mind. I spend a lot of time thinking, in a professional capacity, about both hamburgers and linguistics, and there’s a weird quirk...
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Yakuza Oishi Sushi in Laos is criminally sweet
Just look for Big Tom standing out front. Not too long ago, our rambling reporter Ikuna Kamezawa traveled to the South East Asian country of Laos, and while there had a sudden hankering for sushi. A...
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Studio Ghibli and Uniqlo team up for line of beautiful T-shirts and bags, but...
Neither Japan nor the U.S. are the first countries to get the first collaboration between the anime studio and fashion brand. Over the years, we’ve seen Uniqlo team up with a whole slew of popular...
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Extreme budget travel! Can you do a quick trip to Angkor Wat with 50,000 yen...
Go Hatori tests the limits of his wallet by visiting Cambodia’s Angkor Wat via Thailand over three nights and four days. Our Japanese-language reporter Go Hatori enjoys seeing how far he can stretch...
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Extreme budget travel! Can you do a quick trip to Angkor Wat with 50,000 yen...
Go continues testing the limits of his dwindling budget while sightseeing at Angkor Wat. Welcome back to the second part of our Japanese-language reporter Go Hatori’s extreme budget travel to...
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We visit a Lawson in Indonesia to see if it can satisfy our cravings for...
Will it have everything we want and more? Only a visit will find out! Our Indonesia-based reporter Aqil has seen a surprising development in his area: an increasing number of Lawsons. Lawson is a...
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We stumbled upon “Pudding Street” in Hanoi, so of course we had to investigate
What’s Vietnamese pudding taste like? We had to find out! Our Japanese-language, world-traveling reporter Ikuna Kamezawa was visiting Hanoi, Vietnam, recently, when, after getting a massage, she...
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Extreme Budget Travel! Can you do a trip to Manila with 50,000 yen (US$333)?...
Go takes a short weekend trip to the Philippines and enjoys delicious food and more. You never know quite where you’ll find our Japanese-language reporter Go Hatori. When he’s not being pranked in the...
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Extreme Budget Travel! Can you do a trip to Manila with 50,000 yen (US$333)?...
What will Go’s first full day in the Philippines bring him? Welcome back to the second part of our Japanese-language reporter Go Hatori’s extreme budget travel to Manila, where he tries to fit...
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Rapist to become first Japanese person caned in Singapore following conviction
Corporal punishment included in sentence handed down for 2019 crime. On July 1, the Singapore High Court handed down its sentence in the case of Ikko Kita, a 38-year-old Japanese national living in...
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Family Mart bartender robot Milly is here to serve you coffee…but not in Japan
After meeting Milly, we want to take her home with us. Japanese convenience stores have been expanding their reach to other countries in recent years, and in Indonesia, Lawsons have been popping up...
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Adorable baby hippo Moo Deng is now an adorable Mister Donut donut!
Thailand’s superstar pygmy hippo receives the highest honor that Mister Donut can bestow upon it, but not in Japan. Here in Japan, Mister Donut has an annual tradition of bringing out Pokémon-themed...
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