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Okinawa Prefecture is scrambling to plot its next move in the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling siding with the central government's effort to relocate the operations of a U.S. military base…
It may surprise you to know there are close to 100 different gestures regularly used by Japanese people to communicate with friends, colleagues and the general public. While most of those used by Wes…
Japan's most unfortunately named porn company Soft On Demand is offering virtual sexy time at its newly opened location in Tokyo's Akihabara. The establishment's billboard s…
Want a free case of craft beer? If you send 30,000 yen ($260) or more of your taxes to the town of Yamanouchi in Nagano prefecture, they’ll send you 24 bottles of a locally brewed beer to say thanks.…
MIEKO TERADA moved to Tama in 1976, at about the same time as everyone else there. Back then, the fast-growing city in Tokyo’s suburban fringe was busy with young married couples and children. T…
I read this article on Japan Times today, about whether female scholars are taken seriously in Japan. That brings in a broader question; are female workers taken seriously in Japanese…
If you are coming from EU or Canada, Japan's winter is not that cold; but then, the houses have poor insulation, and you will feel colder without good heating.
Seijin-no-hi (Coming of Age Day) is a Japanese public holiday that occurs on every second Monday of January. This holiday honors people who have reached or will, the age of twenty within th…
The New Sky Building in Shinjuku is an amazing structure born from the Metabolism movement, an idyllic type of architecture from the 70's that is supposed to be able t…
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