Valentine’s Day in Japan is as much about the chocolate as it is about romance.
But just as there are all sorts of romantic feelings, from a simple crush to a love that you feel from the bottom of yo…

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"Ill-mannered Chinese tourists have caused trouble in my store," the man, who was not identified, was quoted as saying by the Asahi Shimbun news site.
I don't want Chinese tourists to enter."
The sig…

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West Japan Railway Co. is developing an AI system to gauge the amounts of snow attached to Hokuriku Shinkansen trains that cut through Niigata, Toyama and Ishikawa prefectures along the coast of the …

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We are coming to Japan from Australia specifically to attend Comic Con Tokyo in 2020.
I am wanting to book flights (there are some great flight deals available at the moment) but I can’t find a date …

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Kao-moji look like little faces, typically made with parentheses, and they express a huge variety of emotions.
And one such international app, Simeji with over 10 million installs, recently released …

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Earlier this year in January, Japan saw heavy snowfall that caused the nose of a local Tengu to break off.
Located outside Kurama Station in Kyoto, and part of the local Kurama-dera temple, the large…

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Yesterday, Tokyo woke up to their first November snow in over 50 years.
The last time the first snowfall, called hatsuyuki (初雪) occurred in November was in 1962.
So if you go back to the first accumu…

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Bear in mind that these are the types of emoji often used in Japanese texting which usually depict a face between two parenthesis making up the head, such as: ( •_•).
So without further ado, here are…

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A house in Japan by Atelier Kento Eto is clad entirely in black corrugated metal with sliding doors that reveal a double-height hall with white walls.
Atelier Kento Eto put a lofty hall at the heart …

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Part-hotel, part-shopping center, and part-recreational facility, the new Miyashita Park aims to be a communal space incorporating a rooftop park as its centerpiece.
▼ The former Miyashita park in 20…

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