The hard drives had been used for data sharing servers at the prefectural government office and were replaced with new ones in the spring.
The prefectural government had deleted the data, but the suc…

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Households cut their spending for the first time in almost a year in October as natural disasters disrupted business and the sales tax hike, from 8 percent to 10 percent, prompted consumers to rein i…

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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's National Police Agency unveiled Friday planned changes to the nation's traffic laws that define road rage and impose harsher penalties for dangerous driving, as authorities l…

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East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond.
This is the logo for an upcoming slot machine called Wheel of Fortune.
As poi…

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If you were going to classify anime/manga mega-hit One Piece, you could call it a pirate story, and it’s also clearly an action/adventure treasure-hunting tale.
Heck, friendship is such a central the…

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Just last week we attended the first-ever Star Wars kabuki play, in which famed actor Ichikawa Ebizo portrayed the internal strife of fallen Force-user Kylo Ren.
But there’s now a new stage theatrica…

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Many of us thought some mysteries in Spirited Away would never be solved.
But now a letter from Studio Ghibli has surfaced giving us some incredibly detailed explanations!
Japanese Twitter user @0910…

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In this way the Rare Fish Festival (Mezurashi Sakana Fest) is like the Rams Head Live stage of the Maryland Deathfest.
Taking baby steps into this underground world of fish, we selected our reporter …

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On first impression, though, Togo Kinenkan’s complex is unassuming—we wouldn’t have been able to guess from first glance that there’s a posh tea salon inside!
The afternoon tea course has a 90-minute…

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The building’s exterior was already markedly different from Japanese love hotels.
It was much less discrete with “Love Hotel” prominently written in large letters above the entrance.
Upon entering th…

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