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When Tigger Met the Year of the Tiger on a Japan Post Card

Japan Post's official 2022 Winnie the Pooh nenga hagaki features Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger in a snowy design — with Tigger chosen to mark the Year of the Tiger.
Japanese Collectibles

Hoenn’s Three Starters on a Banpresto Hexagon Eraser

A white hexagonal eraser made by Banpresto for Japanese arcade crane games, featuring Mega Sceptile, Torchic, and Mudkip from Pokemon's Hoenn region.
Japanese Collectibles

Deuce Spade’s Acrylic Charm and the Sega Prize Tradition

A Sega acrylic keychain charm featuring Deuce Spade from Disney Twisted Wonderland, a mobile game with scenarios by Yana Toboso of Black Butler fame.
Japanese Collectibles

From Weekly Shonen Jump to a My Hero Academia Metal Postcard

Izuku Midoriya's metal postcard from My Hero Academia shows Deku channeling One For All, a format popular in Japan and rarely found outside it.
Japanese Collectibles

4 Vintage Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon Collectibles From Japan

A look at four vintage Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon collectibles from Japan, including capsule monster erasers by Bandai and a 1998 Shadi Carddass card.
Japanese Collectibles

Iwaizumi’s Haikyu Metallic Sticker, Explained

Hajime Iwaizumi of Aoba Johsai stars on this official Ensky long metallic sticker from Haikyu!!, released as an SP Rare variant in a blind-pack series.
Japanese Collectibles

Black Cats, Zakka, and the MIDORI Miniature Cat Series

MIDORI Japan's Miniature Cat #6 is a numbered black-cat magnet figure rooted in Japan's zakka culture, blending cute original design with everyday function.
3 Things to Know About Inosuke’s Niformation Sticker Japanese Collectibles

3 Things to Know About Inosuke’s Niformation Sticker

A holographic chibi sticker of Demon Slayer's Inosuke Hashibira from the Niformation series, explained: the character, the format, and its Japanese roots.
Japanese Collectibles

How Jungle Cruise Ended Up on a Tokyo Disneyland Phone Card

A vintage NTT telephone card from Tokyo Disneyland, featuring Mickey Mouse and friends on the Jungle Cruise — part of Japan's rich teleca collecting culture.
Japanese Culture

What Is Jujutsu Kaisen? A Collector’s Guide to the Manga, Art Books, and Japanese Limited Goods

Imagine a world where negative human emotions — grief, fear, hatred — physically congeal into monsters called cursed spirits, and a small corps of jujutsu sorcerers is all that stands between them and everyone else. That is the premise of...