Hokkaido Dairy and RamenThe monopoly on cows in Japan has created a heavenly aura around Hokkaido’s dairy industry.
One of the more exciting uses of Hokkaido’s dairy is the signature ramen dish, aptl…

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Comme des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo has created the costumes for a Vienna State Opera production of Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
The costumes for the production, which premiered on 8 December, follo…

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Japanese research organization Disco, which conducts surveys on job-hunting foreign students in Japan every year, recently polled them on what the biggest oddity of the Japanese job-hunting system wa…

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Honda will reboot the S2000 in 2020, but not in the way everyone wants.
Instead of building a new generation of its rev-happy sports car, Honda has come up with what the S2000 could look like in 2020…

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How does the boss of the beef bowl king eat his gyudon?
In comparison to the topping and sauce-laden “teriyaki bowls” served at pseudo-Japanese restaurants overseas, authentic gyudon (beef bowls) can…

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Nothing like a good pair of socks to remind us that some people are blessed with artistic talent and others, well, aren’t.
There’s only one Muji (short for Mujirushi Ryohin) store location in all of …

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That’s why today we’re counting down the top five indecipherable Japanese Internet slang words.
It’s dangerous to go into the Japanese Internet alone; take this!

5. orzThe first official item on the …

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So if you want to give Netflix’s anime series a shot but were confused by seeing wildly different shows like Devilman Crybaby and Pokémon sitting next to each other, this list is for you.
No other an…

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Fans have long bemoaned the inability to purchase digital versions of films from legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli.
Nearly the entire collection of Studio Ghibli movies are now availab…

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Japan ranked 121st among 153 countries in the gender gap rankings in 2019, down from 110th the previous year and in last place among major advanced economies, the World Economic Forum said Tuesday.
I…

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