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This ¥500 Scented Lantern Is Asakusa’s New Way To Explore at Night
Asakusa is known for its preserved old-Tokyo atmosphere, historic temples and vibrant daytime crowds, yet the district has plenty to offer after dark, too. The new “Kaoru Asakusa Lantern Project” invites visitors to discover the area in a different light, both literally and figur...
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This Hide-and-Seek Game Will Test Your Japanese Reading Skills
Learning Japanese is hard enough without the characters actively conspiring against you. In NumeNume, a new online multiplayer game, players face one deceptively simple question: can you tell the difference between the hiragana characters nu (ぬ) and me (め)? It’s essentially hide-...
government
Infantino set to take his FIFA re-election campaign to Japan to court Asian soccer federations
TOKYO (AP) -- Gianni Infantino's campaign for re-election as FIFA president is set to move this week to Japan and a meeting scheduled for Wednesday wi
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News in Easy English: Many malatang shops open in Japan. But will they stay popular?
TOKYO -- "We are opening a malatang restaurant in Japan. We want to hear honest opinions from Japanese people. Do you want to join a discussion group?
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Uniqlo to raise average selling prices by about 4%
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese casual clothing retailer Uniqlo said it will raise the average selling price of its products by about 4 percent.The price in
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Japan launches spacecraft to mysterious moons of Mars in a bold mission to bring home soil samples
(AP) -- A Japanese spacecraft rocketed toward Mars on Tuesday on an unprecedented quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples.Five of
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Major Japan-US joint military drills kick off to boost regional defense
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military began a joint exercise Monday across Japan, with more than 50,000 members taki
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Japan trade agency, Japanese firms face unauthorized access
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government-backed Japan External Trade Organization said Monday it has temporarily shut down its website following unauthorized a
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Student who met Sagamihara killer seeks lessons from mass stabbing
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Kazuaki was a second-year junior high school student when he sat across an acrylic partition from Satoshi Uematsu, the man accused of
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Chinese AI tool used in cyberattacks on Japanese companies, investigation finds
The threat of cyberattacks for Japanese companies has grown recently, as the number of companies disclosing data breaches continues to rise.
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Politics of the potato front and center for Japan’s new agriculture minister
Arata Takebe's Hokkaido constituents might oppose a push to increase potato imports from the U.S.
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Under pledge to U.S., Japan’s chip investment divided between home and abroad
The $550 billion commitment to the Trump administration, in return for lower tariffs, won't do much to resurrect Japan's chip industry, experts say.
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Protected: CHILLAXY Ikebukuro and Kabukicho: Two New CBD Spots to Discover in Tokyo
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Japan slams lack of access to journalist detained in Russia
Russia arrested a journalist from the Hokkaido Shimbun on the Far East island of Sakhalin a week ago on suspicion of espionage.
safety
Electronic warrant system to be rolled out in Tokyo and nearby areas by March
Currently, police officers need to visit courts in person to obtain printed arrest and search warrants.