Like most forms of pasta, ramen noodles themselves don’t have much flavor, and so the deciding factor when picking a ramen restaurant is the broth.
But if none of those tempts you, in Tokyo there’s a…

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But while bespectacled Nobita, girlish Shizuka, and pompadour-sporting Suneo all seem to be keeping the secret under wraps, Gian, seen on the far left in the above shot, almost spills the beans!
We h…

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Democracy protests in Asia have spread to Japan on Sunday with thousands of mascots marching through the streets of Tokyo.
Demonstrations were sparked after the International Olympic Committee discri…

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The fuel cell is the future, Toyota believes, and the Mirai is its flagship.
AW: So I have a Toyota Mirai fuel-cell vehicle for a one-year loan to see what it’s like to live with a fuel-cell vehicle.…

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In the paper DeepRemaster: Temporal Source-Reference Attention Networks for Comprehensive Video Enhancement, the researchers show how their novel approach can bring new life to old films.
The researc…

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With December less than two weeks away, Japanese companies are beginning to make preparations for their annual bounenkai (end-of-year) and shinnenkai (New Year) parties.
But according to a recent sur…

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Well, because it was black bread.
The moment we took it out of its bag, we were immediately overwhelmed by the smell of black sesame seeds.
▼ ‘Gold’ bread vs black bread.
We asked if there would be a…

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President of developer of Azur Lane outshines her game’s beautiful anime-style heroines.
If you were in a harsh mood, you could accuse Chinese-developed mobile game Azur Lane of blatantly trying to r…

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Participants running before basking in water at Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, on January 10, 2015.
Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License PhotoParticipants pray before basking in water at Kanda Myo…

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You could easily argue that Hello Kitty is the most thoroughly cute character Japan has ever created.
But now Kitty-chan is getting a chance to prove that her inner cuteness isn’t just personality ba…

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