What's your favourite flavour of chocolate bar? Sweet potato? Soy sauce? Kit Kat has long been mixing local Japanese flavours into its products, so to celebrate its 45th Anniversary, it's launched a selection box allowing culture hungry foodies to sample the flavours of Japan.

Japan is launching a nationwide effort to make its nightlife more accessible to tourists, by improving transport and funding events. As other destinations outpace Japan’s tourist spending on culture and recreation, the country is reconsidering nightlife’s role in holidaymaking.

For most people, chores are a necessity and rarely a pleasure; a third of Brits would rather pay to have someone else do them. But could a shift in our perception of these tasks, underpinned by thoughtfully designed products, make them more pleasant? Can beautiful brooms make sweeping fun?

With shoppers in China aligning Japanese craftsmanship with quality, brands are setting up factories in Japan to benefit from this perception. But given that purchases act as a marker of identity, Japanese products only hold status when political tensions between the countries are at bay.