Customers must also undergo four-stage disinfecting process before being seated.
Though many restaurants in Japan have transitioned to take-out service these days, eat-in dining is still allowed.
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Approached Japanese man she met at cosplay event and offered to pay him to be her husband for visa purposes.
In 2012, Canadian citizen Shannon Wong came to Japan on a four-year student visa.
The two …

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You can find many of the fundamentals for sale at 100 yen shops, where, as you’d guess from the name, almost all items cost just 100 yen (US$0.92) plus tax.
Our Japanese-language reporter Go recently…

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Visiting a cat cafe in Japan is a bucket list item for many tourists, but the animal cruelty that goes on behind closed doors should give you pause.
By Aaron Baggett May 6, 2020 5 min readIt’s hard t…

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Hidden within the mountaintop Saisho-ji Temple in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture sits the mummified corpse of Kochi Hoin.
Further inside is what looks like a mummified cat, but the temple insists it’s a…

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Then again maybe it’s just my line of work, where miner mannequin idol groups and people licking cops are everyday occurrences, that has made me jaded.
Given the nature of the story, however, it is u…

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The object, they say, is to prevent a surge in the numbers of ‘Corona rikon’ (Corona divorce) the new trending phenomenon here in Japan.
The concept of a woman’s realm is still very much alive in Jap…

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Tokyo (CNN) — When Keisuke Arai switched to working from home during the coronavirus pandemic , he began bickering more with his long-term girlfriend.
wondered how couples across Japan were coping un…

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But when you swing a leg over the 2020 Honda CBR1000RR, you go all-in on that history.
Rather, Honda’s motorcycle department swiped the blueprints, locked a handful of bike engineers away in a remote…

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Kotaku East East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond.
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