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Sep 3, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Paul Park

    All Time Best Japanese Fiction Books | Metropolis Japan (opens the original)

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    From untouchable classics to the severely underrated Ask ten people to name Japan’s greatest novels, and you’ll probably get the same five answers in the same order of “essential reading.” As an avid reader of everything from Dostoevsky to Ali Hazelwood, here’s a roundup of what has actually moved copies here in Japan and abroad. After all, a good read is not just about what won a prize or was assigned in a seminar somewhere, or even which books people bought in numbers. It’s also about which bo

  2. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Paul Park

    Google Store Omotesando: Google's First Flagship Outside the U.S. Opens in Tokyo | Metropolis Japan (opens the original)

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    Google opens its first walk-in store anywhere outside the U.S., right in Apple's backyard. Google opened its first office outside the United States in Tokyo back in 2001. Twenty-five years later, Google Store Omotesando, the company’s first flagship retail shop outside the U.S., opened its doors on August 13. Google Store Omotesando spreads across three floors of Tokyu Plaza Omotesando, the Omokado complex, located in the heart of Harajuku. The basement level covers repairs and troubleshooting f

  3. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Paul Park

    Tokyo Disneyland Ticket Price Increase: What's Changing This October | Metropolis Japan (opens the original)

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    Peak-day admission will increase to a record ¥12,400 and ending the last free Fast Pass Tokyo Disney Resort has raised its top ticket price six times since 2019, and the seventh hike will happen this October. Oriental Land, the company behind Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, confirmed that the maximum price for an adult one-day ticket is climbing from ¥10,900 to ¥12,400, a 13.8% jump. It’s the first change to the resort’s price since 2023. The Tokyo Disneyland ticket price increase won’t af

  4. Article · Jul 16, 2026 · Paul Park

    G-Shock's First-Ever Pokémon Watch Hits Japan Shelves July 17 | Metropolis Japan (opens the original)

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    The limited-edition GA-110PKM-7A goes on sale in Japan July 17, priced at ¥33,000 and built around the franchise's original 1996 color scheme Guinness World Records has named Pokémon the highest-grossing media franchise of all time, ahead of Star Wars, Mickey Mouse and Marvel. Thirty years after Pikachu first appeared on a Game Boy screen, Casio is marking the anniversary with a G-Shock Pokémon watch priced at ¥33,000 and built entirely around the franchise’s original look. It is also the first

  5. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Paul Park

    New Direct Overnight Bus: Tokyo to Mt. Fuji - Beat the Hiker Caps (opens the original)

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    How to hack the hike and beat the daily hiker limit Mt. Fuji lets exactly 4,000 hikers through its busiest gate each day. Once that number is reached, the gate closes on everyone else, no matter how far they traveled to get there. That cap is why hikers now time their trailhead arrival closely, and it’s the exact problem the new Mt. Fuji overnight bus solves. Beat the others and see the sunrise on Mt. Fuji. Fujikyu Bus now runs a nightly service straight from Busta Shinjuku, the terminal next to

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