By Shingo Onda, KYODO NEWS - 5 hours ago - 08:48 | Sports, Lifestyle, News, AllSurf towns across Japan are looking to ride a wave to economic revitalization ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Games, when surfin…

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However, there’s one common ordeal that all ALTs will encounter at some point in their tenure—the infamous English speech contest.
This is largely thanks to the generic roster of competing students w…

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What really makes this bar a “thriller” is that once an hour the lights turn out and a performer gets up on stage to tell you a scary story.
The storytellers have real talent and their spooky sound e…

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the overall top prize went to Hull (left) while the best design went to Eco Laundry (right)Around this time of year, a coveted prize is awarded within a niche industry in Japan: the Laundromat-of-the…

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Japanese people have begun upgrading their redundant pagers with cutting-edge fax machines after the nation’s last remaining pager provider, Tokyo Telemessage Inc., announced it would cease its servi…

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A very basic English word has been shoved into a complicated Japanese sentence today right in front of foreign resident Fiona Redman.
Contrary to popular belief, the insertion of the English word mad…

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A day in the life of a Japanese Anime Cosplayer working in Tokyo Japan. The life of a typical Japanese Worker in the Cosplay world in Tokyo is different than the average Japanese salaryman. The aver…

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KYODO NEWS - 26 minutes ago - 13:22 | All, JapanJapanese space probe Hayabusa2 released Thursday a robotic explorer, bound for the surface of an asteroid -- the last task for the probe before its ret…

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Thirty-nine years since he debuted with the novella Hear the Wind Sing, and 29 years since he broke into the global market with the novel A Wild Sheep Chase, Murakami Haruki is now 69 years of age. O…

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Japan's sole pager provider will end its services Tuesday, with the device, first introduced in the country half a century ago, made redundant by mobile phones.
Tokyo Telemessage Inc will shut down r…

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