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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 6:45 AM ET

Sora News 24 - Weird

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How to make fancy matcha sake chocolates with just 15 minutes of real work【Recipe】

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Testing Japan's fluffy mayonnaise pancake cooking hack【SoraKitchen】

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Man arrested in Japan after leaving car in coin parking lot for six years, racking up three-million-yen bill

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Forcible Obstruction of Business

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Here comes a new katsudon: ice cream katsudon?!?

13 days ago

Japan's job-quitting service claims bosses contact it to try to make their employees quit

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Japanese man gets drunk and falls asleep on Tokyo streets, then gets robbed by foreign national

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And now, we eat a bear paw we bought in Japan's Chiba Prefecture【Taste test】

19 days ago

Denny's new Japanese parfait looks totally different depending on what angle you look at it from

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Naruto and Converse team up for new line of shinobi sneakers[Photos]

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Foreign tourists in Japan will get free Shinkansen tickets to promote regional tourism

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Starbucks Japan releases new sakura goods and drinkware for cherry blossom season 2026

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Japan's newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]

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Japan releases first official sakura cherry blossom forecast for 2026

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Studio Ghibli releases Kodama forest spirits from Princess Mononoke to light up your home

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Major Japanese hotel chain says reservations via overseas booking sites may not be valid

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No more using real katana for tourism activities, Japan's National Police Agency says

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