KYODO NEWS - 42 minutes ago - 23:42 | Japan, AllSoftBank Corp. is considering a broad tie-up with messaging app provider Line Corp., with their talks including a possible acquisition, a source close …

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While the numbers represent a more than 10-fold increase from the 20 visa holders recorded by June, they fall short of the maximum 47,550 foreigners expected to acquire the visa by March 2020.
In ord…

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For an even more extreme example, though, there’s Twitter user @SWBMZERO, who rents a studio apartment in Japan for just 15,000 yen (US$139) a month!
▼ It’s not uncommon for inexpensive Japanese apar…

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Get a glimpse of how one of Japan’s delicacies, the poisonous fugu fish, is traded at auction!
The traditional auction method is called “bag auction (fukuro seri)” and involves the auctioneer hiding …

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However, real estate agencies are seeing a surge in people specifically seeking these kinds of ‘death rooms’.
That may sound horribly morbid, but usually it’s not out of a desire to be close to death…

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Online in Japan, fans are wondering why the mascot character and the official representative for the country’s biggest game magazine Famitsu appear in Death Stranding.
Famitsu recently gave the game …

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When the fish market relocates, the outer market will stay behind.
Photo : Brian Ashcraft ( Kotaku )An outer market stall selling dried fish products.
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Tokyo model lets you share a beer with your sudden wife of eight years and play with your seven year-old daughter.
But one Japanese house builder is now willing to supply the family for you, at least…

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However, when Seiji said he could “go for” a beef bowl, he meant that in the figurative sense.
This beef is Matsuzaka beef, a full member of the holy triumvirate of top-tier wagyu/Japanese beef (the …

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Every year, the Tokyo neighbourhood of Kagurazaka plays host to the Supernatural Cat Festival, a celebration of feline friends that involves a whole ton of people dressing up as cats then marching do…

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