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COBMASTER introduces the HUMMING PACK VEST, combining backpack storage with vest-style wearability for music festivals and outdoor activities. Priced at ¥12,100, it launches in mid-June 2026.
Japanese confectionery brand Colomban introduces a lineup of refreshing cold desserts and a roll cake for summer 2026, available at select shops and salons from June 18.
SWEETEST DAY's chocolate brand "Watashi, Raw Chocolate" from Aomori is releasing a Chocolate Cookie Tin featuring seven varieties of baked treats made using Bean to Bar craft chocolate.
Three Winnie the Pooh character DARTSLIVE cards—Winnie the Pooh [A], Winnie the Pooh [B], and Tigger—are set to go on sale on June 26, 2026, with pre-orders opening on June 16.
The third installment of the ECHO COFFEE series features Rwanda Kilimbi Natural, a coffee from Rwanda's steep highlands with vibrant fruit notes and the warmth of its makers, now available at Little Darling Coffee Roasters in Minami-Aoyama.
Finland-based illustrator Eri Shimatsuka brings her gentle picture book world to the Forest and Flowers Picture Book Museum Garden Lei in Sera Town, Hiroshima, from June 20 to July 20, 2026.
A new "Color MYAKU-MYAKU Ver." stationery collection featuring the official Expo 2025 Osaka mascot in collaboration with Mitsubishi Pencil goes on sale in mid-June 2026 at official stores and retailers across the Kansai region.
MYAKU-MYAKU and Black MYAKU-MYAKU, the official characters of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, are getting new plush mascots — the Roll Otedama Mascot series launches in mid-June 2026 at EXPO 2025 official stores and select shops across Kansai.
The official Osaka-Kansai World Expo mascot MYAKU-MYAKU is set to receive two new licensed merchandise items — a plush toy and a carabiner mascot — both in a cherry blossom Sakura design, planned for mid-June 2026.
Five soft, fluffy can badges featuring Keroro and friends from the new Sgt. Frog theatrical film are set to go on sale at retailers nationwide from June 23, 2026, priced at ¥550 each.
A pop-up shop for the anime "Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!?" is coming to Volks Akihabara Hobby Heaven 2 from June 27, 2026, offering exclusive merchandise featuring newly drawn "Animal Butler & Maid" concept illustrations.
A 1/7 scale completed figure of Florence in her 'Bizarre Tororomochi' outfit from the popular mobile game Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium has been announced by Calbone and is available at AmiAmi, with a release planned for March 2027.