Apple launches iPhone 11 series in Japan
KYODO NEWS - 12 hours ago - 13:38 | All, Japan, LifestyleApple Inc. launched the iPhone 11 series Friday in Japan amid increased competition from other major handset manufacturers including…
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Japan to vaccinate pigs to tackle hog cholera outbreak
KYODO NEWS - 7 hours ago - 19:07 | All, JapanJapan will vaccinate pigs to tackle a hog cholera outbreak in many parts of the country that has seen over 130,000 pigs culled in a year, farm m…
The Popularity of Gay Manga in Japan: What are ‘Bara’ and ‘Yaoi’ and Who Are Its Fans?
Get ready to blush, gasp and “kyaaa!” as we delve into why gay manga is so popular, and how to navigate an already huge international fandom. One manga series, The High School Life of a Fudanshi…
Pocket Wi-Fi in Japan: Two Discounted Options for Short and Long-Term Stays
This is where renting a pocket Wi-Fi becomes a great choice, whether you’re on a once-in-a-lifetime trip or hanging around for a while. Pocket WiFi for short visits: Ninja Wi…
Rokko Meets Art 2019 | TABlog | Tokyo Art Beat
Rokko Meets Art is a modern art festival on Mt. Rokko’s closest station (accessible by Kobe city bus) is Rokko Cable Shita, where you can catch a cable car to Rokko Cable Sanjo. Rokko Cable…
Monolithic black house conceals internal courtyard containing a single tree
Apollo Architects and Associates has designed Umber, a house in Tokyo clad in black aluminium-zinc alloy coated steel with a hidden courtyard. The rooms are arranged in a C-shaped plan…
Fukushima disaster: Nuclear executives found not guilty
Image copyright Getty Images/Composite Image caption Tsunehisa Katsumata (L), Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto are found not guiltyMore than eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese…
Fukushima trial ends in not guilty verdict, but nuclear disaster will haunt Japan for decades to come
(CNN) The only criminal prosecution stemming from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has ended in not guilty verdicts, in a blow to families displaced by the meltdown, as the fallout promises to hau…
Fukushima disaster: Japanese power company chiefs cleared of negligence
Prosecutors had accused the former executives of failing to act on information that showed the risks to the plant from a major tsunami. “It is difficult to deal with issues that are uncertain an…
Bizarre beauty: Shin Noguchi's everyday Japan – in pictures
Ginza, Tokyo, April 2014, from the series Sorry, You’ll Never Walk Alone Shin says: ‘In this project, I try to show a piece of Japan through unusual objects that people are carrying. Snapping so…