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FUKUBUKURO

Customers check out items at Sogo & Seibu's Sogo store in Yokohama on Friday.
BUSINESS
Jan 2, 2026
New Year¡¯s sales start at major department stores
Sogo & Seibu¡¯s Sogo store in Yokohama prepared about 30,000 lucky bags, including ?2,026 packages containing jackets for men.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2015
Staying up all night to get lucky (bags)
New Year¡¯s in Japan means fukubukuro (literally, ¡®lucky bags¡¯). In a tradition kickstarted by the Matsuya Department Store almost 100 years ago, retail outlets offer mystery grab bags to the shoppers who are willing to buy blindly in hopes of scoring a bargain.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Dec 12, 2014
Fashion goes festive for the holiday season
Erimaki Sox collars the market
LIFE / Style & Design / Japan Pulse
Jan 8, 2014
Feelin¡¯ lucky? The highs and lows of ¡®fukubukuro¡¯
Some people got lucky ¡®fukubukuro¡¯ this New Year¡¯s and some got. . . well, something! We take a look at Twitter users¡¯ ¡®lucky bag¡¯ adventures.
LIFE / Style & Design / Japan Pulse
Jan 8, 2011
Lucky bags give away secrets before purchase
Fukubukuro: It¡¯s all in the luck of the draw.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jan 8, 2010
Fukubukoro hunting tamed by the Internet
Fukubukuro are a time-honored New Year¡¯s tradition, but in 2010 some stores were making their lucky bags with marriage hunters in mind.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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