London is seen as the benchmark for the IPC in terms of interest in the Games with a record total of 2.7m tickets sold.
It is an unprecedented number, three times more than in London [one year before…

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Sometimes the substitute subject is a car or other machine that’s gradually had all of its parts replaced, but the fundamental debate is still the same: is the sum of parts still the same sum if none…

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Provided in collaboration with Wada Kosan, a company that develops rental condominiums mainly in Hyogo Prefecture, these new cat homes are currently waiting for tenants in the city of Kobe.
And becau…

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Part of the reason Japan has so many ramen restaurants is because the country has so many different kinds of ramen.
The primary way to classify ramen is by the broth, and in addition to soy broth ram…

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This is Taketa City’s Chikuraku Festival.
Chikuraku is held annually in Taketa City (Oita prefecture) in central Kyushu.
More of an event than an actual festival, Chikuraku is relatively modern with …

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But Japanese students as a whole are not exactly keen to enter graduate study programs.
A similar trend was observed for master's degrees, with higher levels of education necessary to secure senior p…

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TOKYO — From a young age, Satomi Hayashi studied hard and excelled academically.
It seemed only natural that she would follow in her father’s footsteps and attend the University of Tokyo, Japan’s mos…

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Prev Next View AllManga artist Yoshihiro Togashi is known for two things: Creating Hunter X Hunter and taking lots of time off.
As Kotaku previously reported, many demanding manga fans want Togashi t…

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Screenshot : OriconHere’s the first peek at the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind live-action kabuki play.
You can watch the footage below.
The performance stars Onoe Kikunosuke as Nausicaä and Naka…

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There are no more survivors of the volcanic eruption on New Zealand‘s White Island, police believe.
AFP via Getty Images 2/50 6 December 2019 People stand on top of a collapsed six-storey building in…

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