Since their 2005 debut, music group Perfume has been steadily pumping out the hits with songs including “Linear Motor Girl” and “Polyrhythm.” Now twelve years later, members Nocchi, A-chan and Kashiy…

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Another gallery of Tokyo Auto Salon photos.

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Long-term Japan resident and clinical psychologist Marty Roberts, Ph.D says wannabe entrepreneurs should not let fear of inexperience stop them from starting a business. The 39 year-old Roberts plung…

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In a country renowned for bizarre obsessions, there’s one that boggles most minds. No, it’s not Japan’s dedication to vending machines that dispense everything from canned coffee to panties or bizarr…

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Airbnb Inc. is finally getting the green light to do business in Japan after years of operating in gray areas of the law.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet approved rules on Friday limiting home-sh…

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NTT Docomo Inc. will begin offering by March 2019 an artificial intelligence-based smartphone system that promises more efficient bus services.

Using a smartphone application, people will ask to be p…

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This novel concept of time banking is Japan’s way of promoting self-sufficiency among its aging population, while keeping seniors active. The scheme also allays the fears of those who feel embarrasse…

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Apparently, Japan is covered in magical and irresistibly cute animal sanctuaries. We’ve heard about the bunny island and cat island, but there’s also a fox village, where six different species of fox…

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Japan is sometimes called the Galapagos Islands of technology—a place where systems evolve in parallel to everywhere else in the world. One area in which this is quite apparent, is bank ATMs. While m…

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Hunters have been called in to deal with hundreds of wild boars who are living in evacuated Japanese towns in the Fukushima area.
The area was deserted six years ago after an earthquake and tsunami l…

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