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Motivational cake poster to inspire you with mid-week motivation from the world of cakes and baking!

Dates are announced for Hyper Japan 2015! There will be two Hyper Japan shows during 2015: Hyper Japan Festival in July and Hyper Japan Christmas Market in November. Hyper Japan Festival 2015 Hyper Japan Festival will be 10-12 July 2015 at the O2 – a brand new venue for Hyper Japan! The event will feature Japanese food, J-pop and J-rock bands

Valentines Day in Japan – it’s all about chocolate! Our new video is all about how to celebrate Japanese Valentines Day.

Pre-order by 16/02/15 for special prices! Choose a hoodie, t-shirt, v-neck or vest and a larger choice of colours by pre-order.

How exciting does the Attack on Titan attraction at Universal Studios Japan look?! We’d love to go to this, and they’ve got some other awesome anime and game themed attractions planned too. Not so sure about the burger though… Also in this episode of All the Best Stuff is from Japan: a big problem for McDonalds in Japan! There was

The Big Hoot is a public art exhibition in Birmingham. Giant owl sculptures will appear around the city, each custom painted by artists and community groups. The owls will be on display for 10 weeks during summer 2015. At the end of the exhibition, they’ll be auctioned for charity, to raise money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital. The project is organised by Wild in

New artwork in the gallery: Alpacalypse! They look cute but we’ve got to keep an eye on those alpacas…

Cute, funny and crazy Japanese gachapon capsule machine series! You’ve got to see these – cat sushi, inupan doggy bread, men with cameras as heads?!

  All the Best Stuff is from Japan episode 6 – featuring funny and unusual stories from Japan! This episode: “Delicious” yakitori chicken ice lollies from Tokyo – would you try one? Cute character mascots – Osaka decided they had too many character mascots, but how to choose which ones to keep? Karaoke in Japan – including fun themed karaoke

A look back at 2014 with Cakes with Faces – exciting things we did, new stuff, press features, achievements and highlights.

Christmas in Japan We had a lot of fun making our Christmas special video, all about Christmas in Japan. I still can’t believe that Christmas dinner is KFC! The video features: – Japanese Christmas dinner (KFC?!) and Japanese Christmas cakes – Sparkling Christmas lights in Tokyo and around Japan – they are absolutely beautiful! – How to say “Merry Christmas” in Japanese

I’m featured in the Hyper Japan photobook! Hyper J-Style is a photobook of Japanese-inspired street fashion, Harajuku style, lolita, fairy kei, gyaru and lots of other colourful styles, as well as cosplay. Hyper Japan Photobook All the photos were taken at Hyper Japan – mostly at their summer event in July – by the official event photographers. I picked up

Trying fresh wasabi for the first time – watch our video to find out where to buy fresh wasabi in the UK, how to prepare it, and most importantly how it tastes with sushi! Fresh Wasabi versus Fake Wasabi We love Japanese food and make sushi at home most weekends. Recently I discovered that most wasabi paste doesn’t contain any real wasabi. It’s a

Vote for us in the NEO Awards 2014 – we’re nominated for an award for Best Specialist Company! NEO Awards 2014 The NEO Awards are organised by NEO Magazine, the UK anime and manga magazine. We love their magazine (even more since they nominated us!) and have been reading it for years. As well as anime and manga, it also

Our Watermelon Watch is featured in The Guardian Christmas Gift Guide 2014! We’re so excited to see our watch design in the gift guide of a national newspaper! The Guardian Christmas Gift Guide You can view the Gift Guide online on The Guardian website. The gift guide has lots of unique and unusual gift ideas from independent brands, designers and boutiques

Kelsey Ellison made a cute video about our alpacas vest. Her cute alpacas review our pink alpacas vest! Kelsey Ellison Kelsey Ellison is a singer, dancer and YouTube star who makes cute videos featuring J-pop and K-pop covers, as well as vlogs and fashion and make-up videos. We love her fun videos, and saw her performing at MCM Expo in London, Hyper

MCM Birmingham has never been more fun for our Face Cake Cushion! He had the full comic con experience with MCM Buzz. Check out the hilarious photos of his adventures!

Our YouTube video series is called All the Best Stuff is from Japan – but what’s the best thing from Japan? That’s what we asked in our second video from Hyper Japan Christmas Market in November 2014. We had lots of fun talking to people around the show and at our stall – there are some funny moments and lots

Video from Hyper Japan Christmas Market – lots of cosplay, Japanese fashion, dancing maids on stage and cute stuff from around the show. See if you can spot yourself!

Thank you to Alexa Poletti for posting this photo of our All the Best Stuff is from Japan t-shirt! Alexa is a model in the USA, YouTuber and fan of all things cute, colourful and kawaii.