Get up Early to Experience Sumo Training in Tokyo tokyocheapo.com

How to see sumo training in TokyoWatching sumo training for freeFor the true cheapos out there (who don’t mind potentially being left out in the rain, literally), there’s a free option: the Arashio s…

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Hiroto Saikawa to resign as head of Nissan www.upi.com

Nissan chief executive officer Hiroto Saikawa, shown here during a news conference in Japan in March, announced Monday that he is resigning, effective Sept. 16.
Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License Phot…

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Why Lafcadio Hearn’s Ghost Stories Still Haunt Us newyorker.com

As lasting as the resulting blindness in that eye was Hearn’s terrible self-consciousness about his disfigured appearance.
Somehow, Hearn reached this stranger’s door, where he was handed a few dolla…

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The debris-strewn aftermath of typhoon Faxai in Japan qz.com

Among those reported dead include an 87-year-old man who was hit by a falling tree in Chiba prefecture, according to the Japan Times.
JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images Scaffoldings, hit by typhoon Faxai, a…

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Watch Japan's Giant US-2 Amphibious Flying Boat Land In An Amazingly Short Distance www.thedrive.com

It was the largest amphibious flying boat in production up until China bested it with their AG600 amphibian that first flew in 2017.
But that aircraft isn't yet operationally deployed, the US-2 is, a…

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Panasonic’s modular Toughbook 55 lasts up to 20 hours on a charge venturebeat.com

But today the Kadoma, Japan-based company really shook things up with a new flagship — the Toughbook 55, successor to the Toughbook 54 — that’s almost entirely modular.
That’s standard stuff as far a…

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Empath’s AI detects emotion from your voice venturebeat.com

A relatively new entrant in the emotion detection segment is Empath, a Toyko-based startup founded in 2017.
A range of products fill out Empath’s suite, including My Mood forecast, an app employees c…

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The Sega Dreamcast Changed My Life kotaku.com

The Sega Dreamcast was released 17 years ago today in the United States.
A console defined by experimental games and features far ahead of the curve, it’s fair to say that the Dreamcast changed my li…

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Metroid Cosplay Is Blowing Socks Off cosplay.kotaku.com

Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag.Click here to view original GIFHere’s Japanese cosplayer 11Vadu with one of, if not the best Samus outfit I have ever seen.
The accuracy, the movement, i…

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Nissan boss quits as Carlos Ghosn pay scandal deepens www.independent.co.uk

The boss of Nissan, Hiroto Saikawa, has quit after admitting he received dubious income, broadening a scandal that led to the arrest of his predecessor Carlos Ghosn last year on charges of financial …

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