When we think of craft, we tend to picture tradition: skilled hands patiently repeating techniques and materials that have changed little over time. Contemporary craft in Japan occupies a strange double space, as it does globally. Practitioners earn respect for their deep knowledge and highly ref...
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Kyodo News poll showed Friday that the approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Cabinet rose 3.2 percentage poi
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Tokyo metropolitan government is considering an ordinance banning littering, as trash left in downtown entertainment districts ha
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate to 1.25 percent from 1.0 percent on Friday, accelerating monetary tightening as it see
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The cultivation of autumn watermelons is spreading in the city of Tomisato, Chiba Prefecture, a major watermelon-producing area. In autumn, shipments
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese and U.S. governments are planning for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and President Donald Trump to have talks on Tuesday,
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NAGANO -- The Nagano Prefectural Police force has selected the first successful applicant under a new recruitment program for people with experience c
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The U.S. dollar jumped above the 157 yen line on Friday, after two of nine Bank of Japan policy board members voted against an intere
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TSU -- A project is underway to reconstruct stone markers donated late in life by 19th-century Japanese explorer Matsuura Takeshiro to shrines across
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TOKYO -- A junior high school student in Iwate Prefecture was arrested after allegedly spraying bear repellent at students after the school's vice pri
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The U.S. dollar jumped above 157 yen on Friday after two of the Bank of Japan's nine policy board members voted against an interest r
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's farm ministry on Friday began procedures to buy back 210,000 tons of rice to replenish government reserves drawn down by rele
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has reshuffled her Cabinet and unveiled a new leadership lineup for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
