KYODO NEWS - 14 hours ago - 16:00 | Lifestyle, All, JapanA new hotel in a traditional wooden house has been opened in a small village in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, in the hope of revitalizi…

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Tatsu lived in Jujo for 31 years, just five minutes’ walk from Jujo Ginza.
In a similar way, when I explore old Japanese streets, I tend to view their faded facades through a halcyon haze.
In Tokyo’s…

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Mifuneyama Rakuen Park is a sprawling natural sanctuary in Kyushu that was created in 1845.
These enormous stones serve as inspiration for digital art collective TeamLab’s latest on-site installation…

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A foreigner increased his kakkoiiness substantially last night by feigning ignorance of the Japanese language.
The man stuck exclusively to English, except when ordering a drink or speaking to groups…

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A new Japanese phrase has been invented for summer cleverly crafted through the combination of the words “hot” and “summer”.
The phrase encapsulates both the pleasure of informing people it’s hot, bu…

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We moved!! We hired a Japanese moving company and filmed the entire process of packing and unpacking our things. The company we used was Art Hikkoshi Center (Art Moving Center) and they did a great j…

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TOKYO—Ryosei Takehisa, 24 years old, doesn’t have any children—unless you count an animated character with elfin ears called Mikuriya Kuon.
In live appearances on YouTube, the kimono-clad Kuon charac…

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This is where we start with Nobuyoshi Araki's massive and vast body of work: Tokyo, this seemingly endless and meandering city that has no center and yet compells you to wander its streets as if in a…

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During Tokyo's scorching summer of 2018, a record 8,295 people in the metropolitan area were taken to hospitals by ambulances for suspected heat-related illnesses.
It is also planning to increase the…

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Analysts expect the number of freelancers to grow amid the government's push for more flexible working arrangements to address the country's labor shortage, as more companies are allowing employees t…

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