(CNN) — Atop almost every Tokyo visitor's must-see list , Harajuku is one of the city's most name-checked neighborhoods.
In geographical terms, it refers to the area around Harajuku Station, between …

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Seen as the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji was completed around 1010 by a woman of the 11th-century Heian court of Japan, who was later given the name Murasaki Shikibu by scholars.
It centres…

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Image caption Police say the stalker was able to locate his victim by zooming in on the reflection in her eyesA Japanese man accused of stalking and sexually assaulting a young pop star has told poli…

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Mikiko Hara is an award-winning Japanese artist known for her square-format snapshot photography.
Hara utilizes a classic film camera to unassumingly approach her subjects at close range.
Speaking on…

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KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 20:43 | All, JapanTrain operators and airlines said Thursday they are planning to or may suspend their services in eastern and western Japan this weekend, as a powerful typh…

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Yoshino, 71, encouraged researchers to have a "rebellious spirit with a desire to do something that others never do."
Yoshino apologized to his wife at the news conference, saying, "I brought you tro…

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3 Naomi Osaka has begun the process to select Japanese citizenship in order to compete for Japan at next year's Tokyo Olympics, a source familiar with the matter confirmed Thursday.
Osaka, whose pare…

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KYODO NEWS - 3 hours ago - 18:45 | All, Japan, LifestyleJapanese publishers decided Thursday to print more copies of Michael Faraday's "The Chemical History of a Candle," a day after Japan's Akira Yo…

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KYODO NEWS - 7 hours ago - 15:00 | All, JapanThe world's first cloned cow has died of old age at a research center in central Japan at the age of 21 years and three months, local officials said Thurs…

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KYODO NEWS - 22 hours ago - 23:59 | All, WorldJapan's Akira Yoshino, America's John Goodenough and Britain's Stanley Whittingham won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their contri…

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