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Nasu highland

Nasu highland spreads at the farthest north of Tochigi Prefecture. There is Mount Nasu, which is a group of complex volcano and has several peaks, around the prefecture's border with Fukushima P…

Bespectacled Rice Made by Farmers With Glasses

In a crowded marketplace, how do you differentiate your product from similar products that are all competing for attention? One group of rice farmers came up with the unlikely idea of focusing their …

Akihabara Junk: Crunching Elmo, Humping Dog

TOKYO - A few years ago, you'd see the Humping Dog all over Akihabara. It's a USB toy: Plug it into an open slot and the little motorized dog draws power from the PC and starts humping…

Japan Farmers Markets

These blooms are now gone, but were too pretty not to share. The young nashi (pears) are forming under the green leaves that fill out more and more every day. What's interesting about this orcha…

Robot caregivers to help elderly

By Koki Kataoka / Yomiuri Shimbun Photographer"Please move your body along with me and say 'banzai.' Ready?" A 40-centimeter-tall robot led the activ…