Even better, the Japanese language is filled with incredibly handy phrases that we’d love to import into English.
And therein lies the beauty of yoroshiku onegai shimasu: The exact thing you do doesn…

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Unpaid architecture interns in Japan are exploited by their employers, according to humanitarian architecture pioneer Cameron Sinclair.
Sinclair made the comment in response to a tweet from Dezeen th…

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Hong Kong (CNN Business) Just a few weeks ago Masayoshi Son was smarting from having to bail out one of his big investments.
Now he's reminding his critics of another time he threw billions of dollar…

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Officials of Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, say hard disk drives with taxpayers' personal information were auctioned online. An employee of an outside contractor is suspected of selling the disks.

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When we heard about the prizes being offered in a crane game center in Sweets Cranes Yokohama, we just had to check it out.
▼ If you’re in Yokohama’s Minato Mirai neighborhood, we highly recommend st…

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9pm – late¥1,000-¥4,000ContactB2F Shintaiso Building No.4, 2-10-12 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-kucontacttokyo.comNov 30 – Dec 25Now in its 13th year, the German Christmas Market in Roppongi Hills is the longe…

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The Japanese word for such children, "hochigo" (literally, left-alone child) even came into the lexicon from around 2010.
Japan is considered safe, a country where kids are allowed from a very early …

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A trip to the Sapporo Beer Museum will take you through the history of this widely-loved beer brand.
Keep the beers coming and hop over to the Sapporo Beer Garden next door for all you can eat and dr…

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Yamagata Prefecture’s capital city of the same name is one such countryside locale that is the embodiment of humble.
Photo: Randiah Camille Green The view over Yamagata City from Yamadera’s Godaido H…

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Fukushima melted fuel removal begins 2021, end state unknown Melted fuel removal at Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant begins in 2021, but details on how the complex should look at the e…

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