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??????????(??) Walking from Kyushu to Honshu. At the closest point, the islands of Kyushu and Honshu are a mere 700 meters apart. The narrow channel called Kanmon Straits is a very busy waterway with…
Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments ???????? Worldwide Rarities Cembalos A cembalo created by F.E. Blanchet. Its value is comparable to a national treasure. The Dimkedim A Nigerian folk instrumen…
More than 2-million foreign travelers visited Japan in March, the highest number ever for a single month. The amount of money they spend in the country is also increasing. read the o…
Right now, the New Economic Summit (NEST) 2016 conference is going on in Tokyo, Japan. One of the keynote speakers is Andy Rubin. Rubin was in charge of Google's robotics program in 2013, when t…
Right now, robots are perfectly capable of speech through electronic loudspeakers, but somehow we're instinctively able to tell wether speech is genuine, or pre-recorded. So, the next step …
On the streets of Tokyo, a majority of people reporters spoke to on Tuesday said U.S. President Barack Obama does not need to say sorry during his May 27 visit to Hiroshima. And an online poll by The…
We probably had the best weather to go for a day trip to Yamanashi prefecture – sunny, a little bit windy and cold enough, to see the cherry tress in full bloom. Not every traveler... The …
Ryogoku and Asakusa are typical downtown areas of Tokyo located near the Sumida river. Especially Ryogoku is a famous place among foreigners, since it is often considered as the home town of Sumo –..…
While flower arrangement for many people in the West consists of symmetrically arranging flowering plants in a vase, Japanese Ikebana (literally 'flowers kept alive') is a lot more complex.…
TOKYO-Japan Display Inc. said Tuesday it would report a nearly $300 million loss in the recently ended fiscal year, another sign of how slower sales of Apple Inc.'s iPhones are hitting supp…