Every time spring rolls around in Japan, people start looking up towards the trees in anticipation of that great harbinger of the season, the cherry blossoms.
Each year, the sakura bloom on different…

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KYODO NEWS - 2 hours ago - 01:19 | All, JapanNEC Corp. received major cyberattacks possibly involving Chinese hackers over several years through 2018, with some 28,000 data files including those rela…

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The artist Miya Ando’s solo exhibition at Asia Society Texas encompasses numerous sections of the Yoshio Taniguchi-designed building.
“Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form” is comprised of several wo…

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Less than a year after beginning production on the revived Supra, Toyota may already be working on a high-performance GRMN version if a new report out of Japan is to be believed.
According to Best Ca…

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Luxury Japanese fruit meets the mouth of Mr Sato.
Mr Sato had tried cheaper, supermarket-bought tochiotome strawberries before, but none of them had ever looked as shiny and enticing as this gem.
Lif…

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The original Western-style wooden station building, which was constructed nearly 100 years ago, will be dismantled following the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games due to its narrow shape and failure…

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In a country where language and cultural barriers can often be at the root of such childhood delinquency, the Kurihama Juvenile Training School plays a big role in helping young people to rejoin and …

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Terunobu Maeda, the new president of NHK, expressed on Monday his determination to push ahead with reforms of the public broadcaster.
“The three-part reforms of operations, viewing fees and governanc…

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The ministry will distribute its guideline to local governments nationwide to promote the system.
Japanese law does not oblige foreign children to undergo compulsory education, and the matter is left…

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The rice burger bun, or "gohan" burger in Japanese, arrives February 5 and "offers a new taste by changing the bun into a specially made rice bun while keeping the ingredients and seasoning of the cl…

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