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By Amelie Marie Nishizawa Feb 1, 2020 3 min readIn Asia, wearing a surgical face mask in public is socially acceptable. Historically, the mask culture appeared first as a common courtesy, to pre…
(Reuters) — Japan’s Nidec plans to more than triple its revenue over the next five years by focusing on electric vehicle powertrains and buying specialists in motor technologies, two people familiar …
Netflix will add 21 Studio Ghibli films starting on Feb. 1. By Lucy Dayman Jan 31, 2020 5 min readFor anime lovers, Feb. 1, 2020, is pretty much the Christmas to end all Christmases as the day t…
Newsfrom JapanTokyo, Jan. 31 (Jiji Press)--Japan's National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Friday that it has succeeded in cultivating and isolating the new coronavirus, first r…
The deputy governor of Japan’s central bank said today that it must get ready to issue digital currencies, given the rapidly changing world of global payment and settlement systems. Depending on…
It seems like every couple of months, we hear about another outstanding Japanese whisky disappearing. But Japanese whisky lovers now have something to celebrate, as Suntory has just announced th…
Last month, Toyota debuted the company’s GR Yaris, a hot hatch reminiscent of the Group B rally homologation specials manufacturers were ordered to build to compete. Retweeting a story by our fr…
The company had been rumoured to be working on a Nintendo Switch Pro, which could bring new upgrades to the console while staying within the same generation. "Regarding Nintendo Switch, we …
Tokyo is about to get a full Barry McGee experience. Coinciding with his upcoming solo show, Potato Sack Body, at Perrotin Gallery in Tokyo, the San Francisco legend will also have a pop-up…
The Akihabara Showadori branch McDonald’s will be permanently closing at 6 p.m. on January 31. But what’s unusual is the sign that went up just a few doors down on the same block……where there’s …
