Beginning tomorrow, the overachieving spacecraft will leave Ryugu and head back to Earth, bringing—hopefully—its asteroid samples along with it.
After a year and a half of exploratory work around the…

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Ryokan are traditional Japanese hotels whose roots can be traced back to the Edo Period (1603–1868).
Follow Trip Advisor Japan’s advice (and our additional explanations) here to ensure your visit to …

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On November 1, a billboard went up in Tokyo’s Akihabara near the station.
The billboard is for an adult game called, Motto!
Blazing Boobs Super Erotic Heart Mark App Academy!” Below is the billboard …

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The new Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer, which Paramount released this morning, is a giant improvement.
Our spiky hero no longer looks like a nightmarish experiment in avant garde taxidermy.
He has …

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It’s been eight years since an earthquake and tsunami triggered a catastrophic meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The immediate area around the facility remains unsafe, but as Nikkei Asia…

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As the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has passed, Japan is faced with another conundrum: Where to store thousands of tons of radioactive soil that have been harvested from arou…

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But as the capital city of a notoriously pricey country, life in Tokyo must be crazy expensive, right?
mimii_room, who describes herself as a 23-year-old woman living alone in an apartment in one of …

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As "Queer Eye: We're in Japan!"
(Kiko Mizuhara, left, and Naomi Watanabe help the Fab Five navigate Japanese culture and society in the new Netflix series "Queer Eye: We're in Japan!")
(The Fab Five …

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East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond.
Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.
High school students in Japan decided …

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The first trailer for the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie arrived earlier this year, and was immediately met with criticism over Sonic’s appearance.
Paramount Pictures has now released a new tra…

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