KYODO NEWS - 10 hours ago - 16:06 | Lifestyle, All, JapanIs escalator etiquette in Japan about to change?
He is unable to grasp the handrail with his left hand so flouts Tokyo convention by standing …

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KYODO NEWS - 12 hours ago - 13:38 | All, Japan, LifestyleApple Inc. launched the iPhone 11 series Friday in Japan amid increased competition from other major handset manufacturers including those fro…

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KYODO NEWS - 7 hours ago - 19:07 | All, JapanJapan will vaccinate pigs to tackle a hog cholera outbreak in many parts of the country that has seen over 130,000 pigs culled in a year, farm minister Ta…

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Get ready to blush, gasp and “kyaaa!” as we delve into why gay manga is so popular, and how to navigate an already huge international fandom.
One manga series, The High School Life of a Fudanshi (201…

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This is where renting a pocket Wi-Fi becomes a great choice, whether you’re on a once-in-a-lifetime trip or hanging around for a while.
Pocket WiFi for short visits: Ninja WiFiFor holidaymakers, shor…

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Rokko Meets Art is a modern art festival on Mt.
Rokko’s closest station (accessible by Kobe city bus) is Rokko Cable Shita, where you can catch a cable car to Rokko Cable Sanjo.
Rokko Cable Sanjo Sta…

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Apollo Architects and Associates has designed Umber, a house in Tokyo clad in black aluminium-zinc alloy coated steel with a hidden courtyard.
The rooms are arranged in a C-shaped plan around a timbe…

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Image copyright Getty Images/Composite Image caption Tsunehisa Katsumata (L), Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto are found not guiltyMore than eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese…

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(CNN) The only criminal prosecution stemming from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has ended in not guilty verdicts, in a blow to families displaced by the meltdown, as the fallout promises to hau…

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Prosecutors had accused the former executives of failing to act on information that showed the risks to the plant from a major tsunami.
“It is difficult to deal with issues that are uncertain and obs…

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