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100 Yen Shop

100 yen shops in Japan are the ideal place to shop for the budget conscious.  They stock a wide range of general items and like the name implies, everything is priced at 100 yen.  Well, actually not quite.  Everything in fact costs 105 yen due to a 5% consumption tax.  100 yen is roughly equal [...]

Banana Holders

Love bananas but always worrying they`ll get bruised or squished on your way to work?  Ever had a banana literally explode inside your bag on a hot scorching day, leaving a horrible mess to clean up afterward?  …I know I have.
The other day I was rummaging through one of many 100 yen shops across Japan [...]

Cheap Alcohol!

Think back to your last 700ml bottle of spirits. How much did you pay? Probably quite a bit I should think. In Australia a bottle of Jim Beam fetches for around $30 and Wild Turkey about $40 - a fair chunk of the price coming from government tax.
The price in Japan for [...]