Historical.
Cities around Japan are pushing to become more foreigner-friendly with the Tokyo 2020 Olympics fast approaching.
With that, international flights to regional airports are on the rise as t…

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We’re not trying to squash the romance and wonder of the season, but Tokyo winter illuminations have become something of an arms race with the various districts trying to out-gun each other with more…

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This Nov. 15, 2019 photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter shows the new National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, in Tokyo.
(Mainichi)TOKYO -- Japan is exp…

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An ex-student is labeling Seiseiko High School in Kumamoto prefecture as one such school, claiming corrupt traditions there cost him his education.
He has since transferred to a correspondence high s…

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KYODO NEWS - 2 hours ago - 10:16 | All, JapanJapan's household spending fell for the first time in 11 months in October, hurt by a 2 percent consumption tax hike implemented on Oct. 1 and a powerful …

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Japan is the safest country in the world for men in 2019, according to the Global Peace Index.
“Yatta!” said one salaryman feeling really comfortable traveling to work by train.
“Safety country desu!…

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The Japanese film industry is slowly but surely dying.
DEADLINE: Jeremy Thomas was a producer on First Love, and some of your previous films, how did that relationship first come about?
TAKASHI MIIKE…

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With nearly $100 billion in capital, SoftBank’s Vision Fund is the world’s largest tech investing fund.
But in recent months, bigger has not proven to be better, and a series of scandals and shortcom…

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The crane game, commonly called the UFO catcher in Japan, has the potential to be either the dizzying high or the abysmal low of your trip to an arcade.
Once there, we gave him 10,000 yen (US$96) and…

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KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 16:58 | Lifestyle, AllA department store in Osaka that suspended a campaign to allow female staff to wear badges indicating they were having their periods is planning to res…

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