How to say and write "chocolate" in Japanese, along with the story of when and where the word came from into the Japanese language.

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Most expensive strawberry chocolate sweet in Japan? Box of 12 of these "summer princess" strawberries with specially selected chocolate coating costs $100.

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Space near Osaka Metro station has introduced a service for wives to drop off their husbands for a while. Just like a storage service for temporarily keeping one's luggage — except this one is for human storage.

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New Hello Kitty cafe opened on April 25th 2019 in Tokyo; see the dishes featuring super cute Hello Kitty designs, with free goods and an adorable tapioca drink as well.

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Chain of beach bars in Japan that are not located at actual beaches, allowing you to put your feet in the sand indoors.

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North Korea has executed five deemed responsible for causing power failures that led to the failure to produce candies that were to be distributed to children for Day of the Sun celebration.

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Reiwa era is just starting in Japan, and Japanese candy manufacturer Kintaro Ame Honten has released new panda hard candy in cooperation with Ueno Information Center to celebrate it.

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Coffee-flavored mushroom-shaped chocolates, rock candies, peelable apple gummies and BAKE chocolates.

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Ravage these candies with your emo friends. Tasty stick goes cinnamon apple, lifeguard goes ramune, and if you're not careful your 50 yen coin will go melty melt. Plus a tip on how to stay in Osaka for $14 / night.

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How the results of an A/B test 3 months in the running were instantly invalidated by a simple cookie bug.

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Japan has unique candies which can be hard to find elsewhere. Supposing you would like to try some, how would you go about ordering them?

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When creating your landing page, should you customize a ready-made template or create one from scratch? Results of A/B testing a ThemeForest template against a homebrewed one.

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Chocolates with potato chips sprinkled on top, Poko & Peko chocolate lollipops and a DIY kit that has you making a loooong french fry.

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How much search traffic can you get by just uploading your existing newsletter online?

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Apple chocolates, sweet sweet potatoes, soft candy and a... black fish?

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Revenue numbers, site stats and learning from the fails and successes of running Candy Japan in 2018.

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Let COROROMAN reveal to you his juiciness, then nibble on cacao sticks. Why don't you try some sours as well?

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How Bemmu embarrassed himself at a Japanese izakaya, and some candy descriptions as well.

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Get your fortune told while snacking on seaweed chips and pretending to eat ice cream.

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