That’s in part thanks to the approximately 6,000 24-hour-staffed police boxes that cover the country in a network of uniformed protection.
Japanese law allows patrolling officers to stop a random per…

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By Victoria Vlisides Oct 4, 2019 5 min readNetflix recently dropped the teaser to the new Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!
Though we’re still a month out, this is huge news for Queer Eye fans who have been…

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Nestled within the foot of the Nasu Mountains, slightly North of Tokyo, is Art Biotop, an art retreat and artist’s residency.
But one of their highlights is the meditative Water Garden designed by ar…

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According to the company’s September sales report and spotted by Carscoops, Infiniti sales plunged 43.9 percent in September.
I’ve used the word “plunged” many times covering stocks and car sales, bu…

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Now, the Daily Mirror's Special Correspondent Tom Parry and photographer Andy Stenning have gained rare access inside the radioactive Fukushima plant eight years after its catastrophic meltdown...(Im…

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So they’re left with the question: how does Japan stay so clean?
Some examples of extreme Japanese cleanliness have gone viral, like the seven-minute Shinkansen train-cleaning ritual that has become …

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Tsuyoshi, a 9-year-old Dragon Ball FighterZ player, crashed head first into this unique challenge when he had to face his own father in a recent tournament.
Tsuyoshi is a regular at the weekly Dragon…

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A car is made from thousands of parts, and nearly all of them demand at least one tool, mold, die, or whatever you prefer to call it.
Many, many cars must be sold to claw back the cost of the tooling…

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A South Korean politician said Wednesday seawater near Fukushima Prefecture (pictured) was being brought in and being discharged into Korean waters.
File Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License PhotoOct. 2…

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In June 2022, a rocket will launch carrying the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, a spacecraft made by the European Space Agency and Airbus.
And as it hurtles through the cosmos on its mission to study Jup…

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