The “anti-groping” stamps allow those who experience harassment to imprint their attackers with invisible ink and also provide a deterrent to would-be attackers.
Reuters 10/50 19 August 2019 Proteste…

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Asia-Pacific cities have dominated a ranking of the world’s safest cities, with Tokyo coming in the top spot for the third time in a row.
The index ranked 60 cities by various factors including infra…

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That's well before a corridor between ice sheets opened up, clearing an inland route south from the Bering land bridge.
Stone tools from the site suggest a possible connection between these first Ame…

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But you'd be wrong in the case of Space School, a series of game-like educational Famicom cartridges Konami designed for Japanese elementary school children in the '80s.
Designed in partnership with …

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Here is a photo collection of major events in Japan during the latter half of the Heisei Era.
2005(A rapid commuter train cars derails in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, killing 106 passengers and the t…

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Hayabusa2 is the first to successfully collect underground soil samples from an asteroid and comes ahead of a similar mission planned by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) …

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[Supplied photo]They will be placed in Shinjuku's Marunouchi Line station, the Hanzomon Line station in Shibuya, and in the subway at Sendai Station between Aug. 26 and Sept. 17.
There are a total of…

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Jessie Yeung , CNN Written byConstruction has begun on a soaring tower that will become Japan's tallest skyscraper.
The ambitious Toranomon-Azabudai project, in central Tokyo, aims to be "a city-with…

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The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2019 Safe Cities Index (SCI) has ranked 60 destinations across the world in terms of their digital security, health security, infrastructure and personal safety.
The…

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The next major entry in the Yakuza series has been revealed in Japan, and Sega is seriously shaking things up.
Ryu ga Gotoku 7, which will likely be called Yakuza 7 in the West, has a new main charac…

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