This is climate change at work, gradually shifting what a normal season and storm looks like.
Car companies, who are themselves significant contributors to climate change, acknowledge this to varying…

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Senior police official quoted as saying, “I have never heard of this behavior, but it’s sick.”Since August of 2016, Inage Station in Chiba City as been under siege by a man assaulting junior and seni…

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But did you that when visiting someone’s home, it’s considered rude to step on the threshold of the doorway to a tatami room?
Even foreigners might get some serious side-eye if they’re seen doing it,…

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A foreign man living in Japan for the past two decades has aged around fifteen years on a flight returning to his home country.
“I departed a young happening dude, but I arrived back an old unskilled…

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A welfare ministry panel said Tuesday that forcing children to sit for long periods of time in the formal Japanese seiza style will be recognized as a morally unacceptable form of punishment under a …

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In June 2012, a random stabbing rampage in Osaka left two dead, including game music producer Shingo Minamino.
Kyozo Isohi was sentenced to death for the killings, but the Japanese Supreme Court has …

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A thirty-six year-old man (above, in stripes) went on a stabbing rampage that left two dead: 66 year-old female Toshi Sasaki, a bar manager, and 42 year-old Shingo Minamino, a music producer for a vi…

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As Colombian farmers struggle against climate change, this edition of Global Japan shows how Japanese researchers and a private company are helping them increase rice production using less water.
We …

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The report says Japan faced “three exceptionally strong extreme weather events” that year.
“Recent science has confirmed the long-established link between climate change and the frequency and severit…

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But the elementary school students jump around the room, screaming and laughing.
The students and teachers are Brazilian, and the music includes samba and bossa nova.
Music teacher Rafael Kinoshita, …

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