A Kimono for Each Country
A project is underway to create kimonos representing the participating countries for 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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Tokyo's 'cassette heaven' catches eye of luxury brand
Tucked away in a residential area of Tokyo’s Nakameguro district, the Waltz cassette tape shop attracts music lovers from both home and abroad. This “cassette heaven” boasts an inventory of more than…
Susuharai: Year-end Eventin Kyoto
Monks and laypeople beat tatami mats with bamboo slats during year-end cleaning called “susuharai” at the Nishi Honganji temple in Kyoto on Wednesday. They stir up the dust accumulated throughou…
Sleeping Bag Cinema
An about 1,000-square-meter vacant lot of land in Tokyo’s Ginza district where a hotel will be built was converted into an outdoor movie theater Nov. 25 for one night only. More than 3…
world’s 1st digital medicine
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. said Tuesday it has obtained approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to manufacture and sell its oral aripiprazole tablets embedded with a miniscule sensor, the …
Japan, Germany both appreciate long-term thinking
Japan’s tourism industry has flourished due to the steadily increasing number of foreign visitors over the past few years. Donald Bunkenburg, senior director for Japan and Korea of the Lufthansa Grou…
Edano looks to rally opposition
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Edano expressed his desire to rally opposition parties in the wake of Sunday’s House of Representatives election, which saw his party become the …
Lacquer Violin
WAJIMA, Ishikawa — A violin made using the Wajima lacquerware technique of Ishikawa Prefecture will enter the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, considered one of the world’s finest repos…
Processed Food for Low Prices！
Supermarkets and convenience stores are cutting prices on processed food products and daily necessities, as concern over the future course of the economy and sluggish growth in disposable income leav…
Minami Alps tunnel for maglev line
Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) on Wednesday showed to the press part of the site for a tunnel to be constructed under the Minami Alps huge mountain range as part of its magnetic levitation ultr…