Daisho Suisan is not your ordinary Japanese seafood company.
So when, in 2014, the company decided to add tea bags to their line of businesses it probably wasn’t too extraordinary.
After numerous tri…

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An artistic rendering of the new duck-billed dinosaur species, Kamuysaurus japonicus.
Photo by Masato/Hattori/Kobayashi Y., et al./Scientific ReportsSept. 5 (UPI) -- Paleontologists have unearthed th…

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Wayforward’s River City Girls turns that tired formula on its head.
The River City series, known in Japan as Kunio-Kun, has always been about tough boys beating people up or doing sports.
The basic s…

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New York (CNN Business) Nintendo is going back to the 1990s.
On Thursday, it released 20 classic games from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES, to anyone with an online membership.
The …

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Illustration: Y. Kobayashi et al., 2019/Scientific ReportsIntroducing Kamuysaurus japonicus—an entirely new genus and species of hadrosaur from Japan.
New research published today in Scientific Repor…

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"Pots are formed in clay, though the space inside them is the essence of the pot."
Japanese artist En Iwamuras week-long solo show is in its final days at Ross+Kramer Gallerys East Hampton space.
New…

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KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 05:30 | Lifestyle, Japan, AllA 42-year-old butcher in western Japan has developed an emergency food that can also be eaten by infants and pets when families take shelter wit…

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Designer Akira Minagawa, of the faux-Finnish brand minä perhonen, has collaborated with seasoned architect Yoshifumi Nakamura to renovate and transform a Kyoto machiya into a rentable guesthouse.
Tit…

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In the heart of the Marunouchi business district, Apple will open its newest and largest store in Japan across from the historic Tokyo Station this Saturday, September 7. Apple Marunouchi is Apple’s …

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When scientists here set out to apply artificial intelligence to the study of animal behavior, they weren't monkeying around.
Researchers from Kyoto University and Oxford University have developed a …

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