KYODO NEWS - 1 minute ago - 13:14 | All, JapanShuri Castle, a symbol of Okinawa's cultural heritage as well as its recovery from the scars of fierce World War II ground battles, was reduced to ruins …

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See the earliest autumn leaves in Japan at Hokkaido's billowing onsen towns and quiet parks.
Though popular in winter, Hokkaido’s vast wilderness comes alive in autumn with countless national parks p…

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Japanese architects Shimpei Oda and Tetsuya Tanji made only subtle changes to this unfinished office unit in Nara, to turn it into a design studio.
The two architects, who lead the studios Shimpei Od…

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VideoJapanese fire fighters battled a massive fire that consumed an historic Japanese castle early on Thursday morning.
Shuri Castle, which was originally built 500 years ago, is a Unesco World Herit…

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Nintendo’s third-quarter earnings are out, and they reveal that the company sold 4.8 million Switch consoles between July and September, a year-on-year increase of just over 50 percent.
This quarter …

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• Team’s base before final is close to Chofu airport • Drone-shot footage used by coaches to review training sessionsEngland’s preparations for the Rugby World Cup final on Saturday hit a glitch with…

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TOKYO/OSAKA (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974.T) second-quarter operating profit more than doubled, blowing past analyst estimates, on strong demand for its Switch console.
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KYODO NEWS - 5 hours ago - 14:36 | All, Japan, LifestyleA huge replica of Godzilla will open next summer at an anime theme park in western Japan, the operator said Thursday.
The "Godzilla Interceptio…

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By GaijinPot Blog Oct 31, 2019 1 min readA slightly mummified corpse greeted police officers when they stormed room 1272 of the Marroad International Hotel back in the late ‘90s.
Hotel staff had been…

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Tokyo — Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up…

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