NANZUKA is pleased to announce "Sorayama Explosion" an exhibition of new works by Hajime Sorayama (1947-). This show marks the artist’s third presentation with the gallery, as the first time in two y…

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The scramble to hire the best and brightest is transforming business, and particularly tech companies, around the globe. It’s pushing companies to offer previously unheard-of benefits, rethink their …

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A subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp. and a Japan unit of China's internet search giant Baidu Inc. said Wednesday they have tied up to tap into the Japanese self-driving bus market.

Under the agreemen…

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Harmonica Yokochō is a West Tokyo drinking district next to Kichijōji Station on the Chūō Line. It was so named because on a map, its long, skinny rows of alleys are supposed to look like a harmonica…

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ちょっと is one of the more useful and commonly used words in the Japanese language. Even if you're very new to Japanese, it's pretty likely you've come across ちょっと before, because it's short, simple, an…

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Japanese wines have been in the spotlight amid an ongoing wine boom that began around 2012. A wine must be made with 100% Japanese grapes to be considered a “Japanese wine.” Domestic production of wi…

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What causes a 5-year old girl to write in her notebook, “Please forgive me,” just a few days prior to her death from abuse? “Please forgive me” is ‘onegai, yurushite,’ in Japanese, and the phrase mad…

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Promising new research out of the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science shows that the dispersion of radioactive material can be accurately predicted with the help of machine learning.

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Japan may have been crushed by their last-gasp loss to Belgium that ended their dream of reaching their first-ever World Cup quarterfinals, but the Samurai Blue and their fans have certainly won plau…

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Mastering Japanese while holding down full-time employment might be tricky — especially if you live far from the gaijin-friendly environs of Tokyo where language schools exist at almost every corner.…

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