Missed the JLPT? Here’s what you can do next
Even if you missed out on a spot for this year's Japanese-Language Proficiency Test, you may have more options than you originally thought.
Even if you missed out on a spot for this year's Japanese-Language Proficiency Test, you may have more options than you originally thought.
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TOKYO -- Following the liquor tax revision in Japan that took effect on Oct. 1, retailers have begun cutting prices on beer, which is now subject to a
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese manufacturer of cooking and home appliances has been selling craft beer made with upcycled rice in the hopes of reducing a
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TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Oct. 1 that retailers could suffer reputational damage if they failed to pass a planned consumpti
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks fell Friday as profit-taking and elevated crude oil futures weighed on the market, with a wait-and-see mood ahead of U.S
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No matter how strongly leaders seek to check the yen's slide, their efforts will remain no more than a temporary fix. Japan should instead review its
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West Japan Railway Co. announced that the lead car of the Doctor Yellow inspection train, which will be retired from service on the Tokaido and Sanyo
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe has suffered a malfunction in the last of its working ion engines, an official of the country's space a
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YANGON (Kyodo) -- Japan's Charge d'Affaires ad interim in Myanmar Shogo Yoshitake met Thursday with Myanmar Foreign Minister Tin Maung Swe, according
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YAMAGATA -- Yamagata Prefectural Police in northern Japan have produced keychains featuring phrases commonly used in "special fraud" schemes to help p
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SHIZUOKA -- Prices of leafy vegetables have surged at supermarkets across Japan, apparently due to prolonged rainfall nationwide, prompting sighs from
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UDA, Nara -- Ushigen Honten, a long-established butcher shop and beef restaurant in this western Japan city, has entered the luxury lodging business,
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ASAHIKAWA, Japan (Kyodo) -- The season's first snowcap was confirmed on Mt. Asahidake, the highest peak on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaid
