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Japanese investors are not holding back when it comes to backing Indian startups. Spread across 157 deals, more than 105 Indian startups received capital from Japanese investors between 2014 and…
Train with the sport’s most kawaii professional sumo wrestler. That’s not to say sumo wrestlers don’t know how to have fun, though. However, this really is the work of the official Sumo Ass…
A lesson in what not to do at a revolving sushi joint in Japan. The tweet, by Twitter user @6jsDrYcsuFZf7EB, captures the essence of the problem with two images taken at a revolving sushi train …
By night, though, he runs the Bouzu Bar (bouzu being the Japanese word for “monk”). Before opening his own bar, he spent a year studying bartending and learning all he could about various types …
In its next iteration, the Subaru WRX STI—as well as its more civilian WRX brethren—could reportedly abandon its current four-door body style to bring back the coupe format not seen since the ra…
Just ask Microsoft, which tested a shorter work week in Japan and gave workers in Tokyo every Friday off this past August. Simply Business, a call center in the United Kingdom, switched its 500 …
For the month of August, Microsoft Japan experimented with a new project called Work-Life Choice Challenge Summer 2019, giving its entire 2,300 person workforce five Fridays off in a row without…
If you’re saving up your yennies for a trip to the the Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo store, here are some of the awesome items available to purchase. ▼ Located far away from Mega Charizard Y is Mega…
But you don't always have a choice--especially if your work culture demands that you show up early and stay late. The country is known for some of the longest working hours in the…
KYODO NEWS - 2 hours ago - 04:00 | Lifestyle, JapanA fire gutted two thatched-roof huts near a World Heritage site in central Japan on Monday, causing a scare for locals and tourists l…
