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Prev Next View AllPoliticians everywhere are crap—even the ones who are thinking about building a giant, working mecha. In an upcoming broadcast on Japanese video platform Nico Nico Live, member…
At about 4 p.m. on 19 September, the doorbell of an 85-year-old woman in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture rang. Standing at the entrance was a man claiming to be a police officer who w…
Mr. Sato tracks down a rice omelet unlike any he had ever seen before at a small French cafe in Tokyo’s Koenji. A rice omelet or “omuraisu,” is a widely consumed food in Japan enjoyed in both ho…
KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 14:31 | All, Japan, LifestyleThe Japanese government said Tuesday it hopes to double the country's output of wagyu beef, known for its tenderness and marbled …
KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 14:15 | All, JapanPolice referred a 17-year-old high school student and two men to prosecutors on Tuesday over their alleged involvement in the online tr…
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 an…
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…
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 l…
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 o…
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.…
