Essentially Japan’s version of a hot pot, nabe (pronounced na-bay) is a large, simmering pot of meat and vegetables that’s served during the winter.
It typically sits on a portable stove and people g…
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Honda (Tokyo) — Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that it has begun demonstration testing of Miimo HRM520 (Miimo), Honda’s robotic lawn mower, jointly with the Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association…
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But what is Japan’s favorite fast food?
They asked 5,708 men and women in their teens to their eighties to comment about their favorite fast food chains.
Survey takers were first asked to list every …
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Shogo Ando, a fourth-year elementary school student in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, passed Suken's top-level 1st kyu test held in October by the Mathematics Certification Institute of Japan.
Ando b…
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No, these are not the names of The Three Musketeers translated into Japanese but the labels for logograms—characters that symbolize a phrase or word—respectively in Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Howe…
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Yubara Onsen was created to treat a beloved concubine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a great Japanese general and samurai.
Today, it lies in a natural, remote setting in the shadow of a massive dam.
Its stun…
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A client's strong ties to Japan informed the interiors of this Barbican apartment, which has been overhauled by Takero Shimazaki Architects.
The apartment is within Shakespeare Tower, one of three hi…
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Japan’s tradition of innovation in technology is spreading into the world of quantum computing nowEconomic MiracleCurrently, there can be no doubt that the US and China lead the global quantum comput…
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Screenshot : FNNA statue of One Piece’s Sanji has been erected in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan.
Eiichiro Oda hails from Kumamoto and the statue is a sign of support for the prefecture, which…
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Walk into any supermarket lately and you'll find mochi -- a small, round ball of ice cream encased in rice dough.
In just the past three years, this finger food confection has evolved from an exotic …
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