A cocktail menu for the ‘konbini’-obsessed
At Tokyo Confidential, familiar convenience store favorites from melon buns to instant noodles become playful cocktails.
At Tokyo Confidential, familiar convenience store favorites from melon buns to instant noodles become playful cocktails.
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FUKUI (Kyodo) -- An interactive, crab-themed complex in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, hopes to become a new landmark and attraction for visitors ea
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Masahiro Tanaka earned the 204th win of his combined Japanese and U.S. professional baseball career, moving into outright second plac
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SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Local residents in a city in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, have taken on a new role of "station attendants" at a once unman
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Yokozuna Onosato blew away No. 3 maegashira Churanoumi to stay on top of the leaderboard at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Satur
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NIIGATA -- Niigata Prefecture's new rice variety "Natsuhime" (summer princess) made its debut this summer. An extremely early maturing variety that ca
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ITO, Shizuoka -- Standing in front of the Ito-shi Kanko Kaikan, literally the Ito city tourism hall, in Shizuoka Prefecture, one can feel the sea bree
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WASHINGTON (Mainichi) -- One day in mid-May after arriving home from school, my eldest son, 8, informed me, "Today we learned about 'Susen Bee.'"Our f
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games began Saturday, with Japan hosting the continental summer games for the first time since 1994 and welco
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CHIBA -- One month has passed since torrential rain in Chiba Prefecture killed 13 people. Since then, intense downpours have continued to strike Japan
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A member of Japan's pop idol group timelesz was sent to prosecutors on Sunday for alleged assault of a woman in Tokyo.Shuto Inomata,
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GAMAGORI, Aichi (Kyodo) -- Takumi Hojo won Japan's first gold medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in men's triathlon on Sunday.Hojo clocked 52 minut
