Hiroshima had been getting such warnings almost every night for weeks, for at that time the B-29s were using Lake Biwa, northeast of Hiroshima, as a rendezvous point, and no matter what city the Amer…

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We previously shared the nominees for the 2019 top buzzwords in Japan, but today, let’s take a look at the 2019 Buzzword Awards as chosen by none other than Japanese JC (slang for “joshi chugakusei”,…

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Unfortunately, it looks like Rinna has progressed beyond surliness and crude humor, and has now fallen into a deep, suicidal depression.
Everything seemed fine on October 3, when Rinna made the first…

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KYODO NEWS - 21 minutes ago - 15:02 | All, JapanMessaging app provider Line Corp. started Monday a new service that allows users to transfer money to bank accounts via its smartphone payment platform…

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Likewise, more and more foreign travelers are showing an interest in dipping a toe in Japan’s hot spring, or onsen, traditions, even if communal bathing isn’t something that’s done in their own count…

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A couple of weeks ago, we shared some historical photos of Japan’s most attractive samurai.
It turns out that along with sword fighting and horseback archery, a strict grooming routine has long been …

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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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