In Japan’s second-largest city of Yokohama, the nerve center for hungry visitors is the West Gate area—just outside Yokohama Station’s west exit.
Hook a quick left after exiting through Yokohama Stat…

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Back in 2013, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (previously) won a competition to design a campus of timber buildings to house the headquarters of watch brands Swatch and Omega in Biel, Switzerland.
Now…

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A respected Japanese news organization has reported that the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to “foreigners”.
The news organization ran with the headline, “ノーベル文学賞は外国人に”, which translated …

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A super typhoon is on track to arrive in Japan right at the beginning of a three-day weekend with zero prospect of effecting regular working hours.
“We are expecting ferocious winds with a high chanc…

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NHK has warned all foreigners living in Japan about the incoming typhoon by tweeting in all hiragana.
“Using only hiragana will make it a lot easier for them to read,” says senior NHK journalist Tagu…

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Akihabara.Tokyo is a dot Tokyo domain and we are not afraid of competition, on the contrary, more in quality and quantity dot Tokyo domains could improve recognition of our URL. Even now, years after…

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Photo: Mat Hayward/Getty Images for AMC NetworksContinuing its newfound interest in producing and distributing anime, Netflix has ordered a ten-episode anime series from iconic Japanese director Masa…

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The treatments were black-and-white painted stripes, black painted stripes, and no stripes (all-black body surface).
Here we show that the numbers of biting flies on Japanese Black cows painted with …

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A team of Japanese researchers recruited six cows and gave them each black-and-white stripes, black stripes and no stripes.
They took photos of the cow's painted right side, counting the number of bi…

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John Goodenough, a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was among three Nobel winners in chemistry.
Illustration by Niklas Elmehed/Nobel MediaOct. 9 (…

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