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Roads lined with fans and a stadium full of cheering on watchers also greeted the Welsh rugby team in the Japanese city of Kitakyushu when they arrived on Saturday.
"Seeing all the banners and the pe…

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They were held against their will in one of the greatest constitutional failings of American history.
Kitani recently wrote a post about what the legacy of Japanese American internment means to him.
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The resulting triple meltdown at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant forced the evacuation of more than 150,000 people and sent a plume of radiation into the air and sea.
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A recent social-media post summed up the mood among rugby lovers in Japan days before the World Cup kicks off in Tokyo.
“As Japan prepares to welcome the world, Rugby World Cup fever is well and trul…

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Ramen is Japan’s national obsession – and there more than 10,000 shops to choose from in Tokyo alone.
In 2016, he helped open Mensho Tokyo SF in San Francisco with master ramen chef Tomoharu Shono.
A…

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Photo: Square-Enix MD Goods (Twitter)Toys and Collectibles Action figures, statues, exclusives, and other merchandise.
Beware: if you look here, you’re probably going to spend some money afterwards.
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A visitor looks at Katsushika Hokusai's famous print, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," at the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome.
As many as 5,000 impressions were made from the original woodblocks for "The Grea…

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"The players just need to calm down and not just look at what is in front of them," said Leitch.
His fellow back-row forward with both Toshiba Brave Lupus and the national team, Yoshitaka Tokunaga, e…

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(A summer school in Kawasaki for junior high school students who have come to Japan within the past three years.)
I don't want you to give up," Seisho Sasaki, 24, a fourth-year student of Kanagawa Un…

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