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  • The best winter gift of 2020? A Japanese stomach warmer!
    The best winter gift of 2020? A Japanese stomach warmer!
  • Tokyo’s best-dressed nude statue: It’s that Santa time of year
    Tokyo’s best-dressed nude statue: It’s that Santa time of year
  • Japanese Lego Town Kits
    Japanese Lego Town Kits
  • Uber Dandy Kimono: Wildly modern, breathtakingly bold, insanely stunning
    Uber Dandy Kimono: Wildly modern, breathtakingly bold, insanely stunning
  • Perfect 2020 Halloween costumes from Japan
    Perfect 2020 Halloween costumes from Japan
  • When Nothing But Unnecessarily Large Tanuki Testicles Will Do
    When Nothing But Unnecessarily Large Tanuki Testicles Will Do
  • The World of The Last Tea Bowl Thief
    The World of The Last Tea Bowl Thief
  • Subway manners meet covid—with a side of prejudice—in these new posters
    Subway manners meet covid—with a side of prejudice—in these new posters
  • Entertainingly altered missionary signs elevate cats to their rightful place
    Entertainingly altered missionary signs elevate cats to their rightful place
  • Amazing scenes emerge as you use this notepad
    Amazing scenes emerge as you use this notepad
  • How lucky is YOUR name?
    How lucky is YOUR name?
  • Hilarious haiku ask those burning questions about modern life
    Hilarious haiku ask those burning questions about modern life
  • When you wish upon a…monk?
    When you wish upon a…monk?
  • Six Surprising Reasons Japanese People Wear Masks, Even When There’s No Pandemic
    Six Surprising Reasons Japanese People Wear Masks, Even When There’s No Pandemic
  • Live Your Best Miniature Life for a Year in Tokyo’s Small Worlds Theme Park
    Live Your Best Miniature Life for a Year in Tokyo’s Small Worlds Theme Park
  • An Only-In-Japan Problem If There Ever Was One
    An Only-In-Japan Problem If There Ever Was One
  • Japanese Emoticons: So Many Feels Beyond Emoji
    Japanese Emoticons: So Many Feels Beyond Emoji
  • Modern Kimonos To Die For: These Designers Are Giving An Old Artform New Edge
    Modern Kimonos To Die For: These Designers Are Giving An Old Artform New Edge
  • Japanese Capsule Toys Explain the Five Stages of Quarantine Hair Grief
    Japanese Capsule Toys Explain the Five Stages of Quarantine Hair Grief
  • Gachapon animals ask their mirrors the most burning quarantine questions
    Gachapon animals ask their mirrors the most burning quarantine questions
  • Tweets from the Pillow Book: Pandemic Version
    Tweets from the Pillow Book: Pandemic Version
  • J-style Social Distancing Measurements for the Rest of Us
    J-style Social Distancing Measurements for the Rest of Us
  • How To Measure Social Distance, J-Style
    How To Measure Social Distance, J-Style
  • Kanji Drill Toilet Paper: For All Your Japanese Study Needs
    Kanji Drill Toilet Paper: For All Your Japanese Study Needs
  • Kawaii Masks
    Kawaii Masks
  • Artist Turns The Best Pet Tweets Into Hilarious Tiny Sculptures
    Artist Turns The Best Pet Tweets Into Hilarious Tiny Sculptures
  • These lovely Tokyo sites light up at night
    These lovely Tokyo sites light up at night
  • Cutest Curry Rice Molds On The Planet
    Cutest Curry Rice Molds On The Planet
  • Nine spectacular cherry blossom gardens, a firewalking field trip & a book giveaway!
    Nine spectacular cherry blossom gardens, a firewalking field trip & a book giveaway!
  • Five Japanese flower seasons that will make you happy you missed the cherry blossoms
    Five Japanese flower seasons that will make you happy you missed the cherry blossoms

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 
The Last Tea Bowl Thief was chosen as an Editor’s Pick for
Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense on Amazon

For three hundred years, a missing tea bowl passes from one fortune-seeker to the next, changing the lives of all who possess it…read more

“A fascinating mix of history and mystery.” —Booklist

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Jonelle Patrick writes novels set in Japan, produces the monthly e-magazine Japanagram, and blogs at Only In Japan and The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had