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Business Insider[1] Japan (30 Mar 2026) says the product restarted as Choco Monaka Jumbo in 1995; President[3] (2021) dates the current crisp-chocolate form to 1996, and Morinaga's exact release month is unpublished, so 1 January 1995 anchors the year.Morinaga Seika relaunched its 1972 Choco Monaka (originally 50 yen) as Choco Monaka Jumbo in 1995, a chocolate-coated monaka wafer around vanilla ice cream with a snapping chocolate layer.
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