Keeping consumers and businesses happyThe Abe administration may feel a 2 percent tax raise is essential to boost the economy, but Japanese consumers and retailers sure aren’t happy about it.
To appe…

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It’s been decades and there is still no car like Mazda’s triple-rotor Eunos Cosmo, a vehicle more ambitious, more foolish and more amazing than many cars made since.
They’re extremely good folks with…

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KYODO NEWS - 2 hours ago - 20:35 | All, JapanThe operator of the Keikyu Line resumed full train services Saturday afternoon in Yokohama two days after a train hit a delivery truck stuck at a railway …

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KYODO NEWS - 8 hours ago - 14:49 | Sports, Rugby2019, AllOne million fans without tickets are expected to watch live screenings of matches with drinks in their hands at 16 fan zones in 12 cities acro…

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Set up in 1965, just a year after the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics, Japan Sun Industries has been building communities where the disabled can live independent lives based on the mission of the late Yutaka …

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Hours 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.2777 Toyosawa, Fukuroi, Shizuoka 437-0032 - MapGetting there: From Fukuroi Station take the Entetsu bus to Hattasan bus stop.
Hours 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.430-0926 Shizuoka, …

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In 2004, archaeology professor Robert Muckle was alerted to a site within the forests of British Columbia’s North Shore mountains, where a few old cans and a sawblade had been discovered.
Muckle has …

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I vividly remember when Final Fantasy VIII came out in February 1999.
It was my first Japanese role-playing game ever.
Revisiting Final Fantasy VIII as an adult, after years of recovering with other …

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Fate/Grand Order, part of the enormous Fate multimedia behemoth, is a Gacha game run by Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment.
When done well, Gacha games make serious profit and provide consis…

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During the Edo Period (1603-1868) of Japan, sushi was between two and four times larger than it is today.
AdvertisementHow Sushi Was Invented If you like sushi, there’s one man given credit for the c…

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