A double-curved timber shell constructed from 7,700 timber pieces forms the Swatch Headquarters by Shigeru Ban in Biel, Switzerland.
The timber gridshell – a double-curved gridded structure – contain…

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(CNN) More than half a million petty criminals will be pardoned in Japan next week to mark the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito , the government announced Friday.
About 550,000 people will be given a…

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Kiki, Howl, Totoro and co. are on their way to HBO Max.
The forthcoming WarnerMedia streamer has secured the U.S. streaming rights to Studio Ghibli movies, meaning the entirety of the iconic Japanese…

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Of the 79 victims, nearly 50 died due to flooding and about a dozen due to landslides.
Some local governments issued evacuation orders or advisories ahead of expected heavy rain.
The infrastructure m…

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KYODO NEWS - 13 hours ago - 15:10 | All, JapanThe Japanese government officially decided Friday to pardon around 550,000 petty criminals on the occasion of Emperor Naruhito's enthronement ceremony ne…

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Discover this local ramen style that’s creamy and chewy with all the toppings.
Devour your way through Yokohama at these five shops to try iekei ramen that are soon to become cult-classics—you heard …

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The person I interviewed just started as a junior high night school teacher last April, so she is in the middle of figuring out what this job is like.
What is a public junior high night school?
The e…

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We're talking about the salon in the title, of course: Hair Salon Nalu & 76 Cafe.
Visiting Hair Salon NaluNalu was started in Tokyo in 2001 by founder Hamaguchi Daisuke.
His idea was to build a T…

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I like reading, I like looking through lists, and also I like kanji (and no I'm not lying).
So when Tuttle publishing sent us A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese, I agreed to dig into it.
However…

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The author of An Illustrated Dictionary of Japanese Onomatopoeic Expressions is Taro Gomi.
However, what really comes out of the preface is Gomi's motivation for writing the book, his love for Japane…

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