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Kao’s warm eye mask is a revolutionary eye mask that has the ability to heat up right out of the packet. It heats up to around 40 degrees C (104F) and can produce some mild steam to moisten the eyes. It can help relieve tired eyes, bags, dry eyes and more! These eye masks are sold in almost any drug stores, Don Quixote and Tokyu Hands.
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Where to buy: Any drugstores or Don Quijote Stores in Japan
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Website: https://www.donki.com/en/
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When your’e choosing between the thousands of delicious places to eat at in Japan, you may notice some replica foods outside of restaurants. They’re actually fake foods of what’s on their menu. These shokuhin sampuru or food samples are a big industry in Japan and are produced by special shops for restaurants. Fake food samples was invented in 1932 when eating out started to become more popular in Japan and restaurant owners wanted to display what they sold in the front of their stores. They became even more popular after World War II when many more Americans were in Japan and couldn’t read the menu so they relied on these fake foods to order their food. You can buy fake food samples as key-chains, pencil holders, decorations and more! Considered to be the father of fake food samples, Ganso Shokuhin Sample-ya sells a variety of fake food samples - and they look so real!
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Where to buy: 3-7-6 Nishi Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo (Stores in Yokohama and Skytree tower as well)
Tel: 0120-171-839
Website: https://www.ganso-sample.com//en/
Hours: Mon-Sun, 10:00am - 5:30pm
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“Mr Clavell tells his story brilliantly”
—The Times
“My bet for the most satisfyingly popular novel of the year . . . It has power, it has violence, subtlety and lots, lots more . . . Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily”
—Daily Mirror
Author: James Clavell
Year: 1975
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Summary:
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne's loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed.
Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Shgun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion. Endlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the best-selling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan. Shakespearean in both scope and depth, Shgun is, as the New York Times put it, ""not only something you read--you live it."" Provocative, absorbing, and endlessly fascinating, there is only one: Shogun.
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This film is the third installment in The Fast and the Furious series which is set in Tokyo. It follows the story of Sean Boswell, a car enthusiast who moves to Japan to live with his dad and joins the city’s drifting and racing community. However, being a foreigner in Tokyo, he struggles to find a spot in the community. This blockbuster film is action packed with a nice backdrop of Tokyo.
http://www.thefastandthefurious.com/ From the producer of the worldwide blockbuster hits The Fast and the Furious and its sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, comes the...
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“One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless”
-- David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS
“Silence is a compelling historical fiction, a potent distillation of the paradoxes and ambiguities of faith and, from a Christian author, a daring challenge to religious orthodoxy. “
-- 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read * Guardian *
Author: Shusaku Endo
Year: 1966
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Summary:
Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs. Shusaku Endo is one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece.
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Based off of the novel by the same name, this film is set in Nagasaki during the 17th century (Edo Period) when Japan was isolated from the rest of the world. It follows the story of two Jesuit priests from Portugal who come to Japan to find their missing mentor and attempt to spread Catholic Christianity in a largely untouched Buddhist country. The film truly emphasized silence as there is no traditional soundtrack with music, but rather the soundtracks are the sounds of nature and subtle sounds throughout the movie.
Watch the official trailer for Martin Scorsese's new movie Silence. Starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson, see it in theatres December. Marti...
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Author: Gosho Aoyama
Year: 1994-present
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Summary:
Ghastly beheadings, bloody murders, and coldhearted child abductions--Precocious high school student Jimmy Kudo uses his keen powers of observation and astute intuition to solve mysteries that have left law enforcement officials baffled. Hot on the trail of a suspect, Jimmy is accosted from behind and fed a strange chemical which physically transforms him into a grade schooler! Taking on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, he attempts to track down the people who did this to him. But until he finds a cure for his bizarre condition, Jimmy continues to help the police solve their toughest cases.Can you crack the case before Conan does?
*Linked is volume 1 of 50 in the series.
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Author: Yoshito Usui
Year: 1990-2010
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Summary:
Famous as a Japanese anime TV show, Crayon Shin-Chan follows the daily life of a five-year-old boy whose bodily functions, offensive comments, and outrageous behavior consistently annoy his parents and land him in hot water. A national phenomenon in Japan, this shocking and hilarious comic celebrates the terrible power of destruction and indecency wielded by toddlers everywhere!
*Linked is volume 1 of 50 in the series.
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Author: Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
Year: 2003-2006
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Summary:
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal…or his life?
*Amazon is linked to all 12 volumes while Book Depository is linked to just the first 2 volumes.
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Author: Akira Toriyama
Year: 1985-1995
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Summary:
Before there was Dragon Ball Z, there was Akira Toriyama's action epic Dragon Ball, starring the younger version of Son Goku and all the other Dragon Ball Z heroes! Meet a naive young monkey-tailed boy named Goku, whose quiet life changes when he meets Bulma, a girl who is on a quest to collect seven "Dragon Balls." If she gathers them all, an incredibly powerful dragon will appear and grant her one wish. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and Bulma needs Goku's help (and his super-strength)! With a magic staff for a weapon and a flying cloud for a ride, Goku sets out on the adventure of a lifetime...
*Linked is volume 1 of the series. Dragon Ball Z comes after Dragon Ball.
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