He was 28, making him both the youngest confirmed corona-related death in Japan and the first such death of a person in their 20s in the country.
Born Kiyotaka Suetake, he began his sumo career in Ma…

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I'm going to teach you how to draw Totoro, okay?"
says a cheery Toshio Suzuki, a producer of Studio Ghibli, as he deftly draws one of the most beloved anime characters in the world.
The YouTube lesso…

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People spending more time at home with their families, fewer people were commuting to work and delays to the start of the school year are seen as factors in the fall.
In April, 1,455 people took thei…

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Image copyright University of Tokyo Image caption The Poimo has been designed to fit inside a rucksackAn inflatable e-scooter compact enough to be stored inside a commuter's backpack has been unveile…

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You can still work in Japan whether your Japanese level is conversational or zero.
By GaijinPot Blog May 14, 2020 1 min readDon’t speak Japanese but want to work in Japan?
Each week we look through o…

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Based on China's experience and guidelines from the World Health Organization, Japan has implemented a cluster-based approach to disease control.
Nevertheless, there have been several major factors t…

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Esports, networked video game competitions that simulate real-world sports, have seen increased interest from fans who have been both forced into isolation and starved of their favorite spectating pa…

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And the most haunted place in this town with so much potential for haunting is supposedly Kohoku Bridge.
But did you know it also has the capital’s most haunted spot, the Kohoku Bridge?
The 449-meter…

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Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd, which plans and develops MUJI products, will launch cricket rice crackers in some MUJI stores and online stores in the spring of 2020.

To promote “a pleasant lifestyle” in va…

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Two more major video game shows — the Tokyo Game Show and Paris Games Week — have been canceled thanks to the pandemic, but the giant Shanghai expo ChinaJoy will take place as planned for July 31 to …

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