When your husband can’t go out to the izakaya during a pandemic, you bring the izakaya to him.

COVID19 update: The experts on the novel #coronavirus stress the need to avoid three overlapping conditi…

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And so the timing is just right for the release of Uniqlo’s brand-new line of Super Mario T-shirts.
Actually, the real reason we’re getting these shirts now is that 2020 marks the 35th anniversary of…

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Obayashi, who earned global recognition for his work including at the Berlin International Film Festival, revealed that he had stage-four lung cancer in August 2016, prior to shooting his film "HANAG…

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Located just to the southeast of Tokyo's Haneda airport, in the middle of the ocean, is a rather interesting structure.
The truth, however, is very mundane – it is just a ventilation shaft for the To…

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It certainly looks like one, though in actuality it's a simple ventilation shaft known as the Tower of Wind.
Maybe simple isn't quite right, a more accurate description would be, stunning innovative …

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So on a whim I spread the search down the line into Tokyo Bay, and BAM, found it.
Wikipedia gave the low-down: The Tower of Wind is a ventilation shaft for the Tokyo Bay Aqualine- the world’s longest…

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The reality is rather more mundane – the Tower of Wind is a ventilation shaft outlet for the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line – the world’s longest undersea tunnel for cars.
The 9.6km tunnel is coupled with a 4.4…

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Fujitsu is developing the A64FX, a 48-core Arm8 derivative specifically engineered for high-performance computing (HPC).
Rather than design general-purpose compute cores, Fujitsu has added compute en…

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FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi speaks during an interview at his studio in Tokyo.
The official site for his latest film, “Labyrinth of Cinema,” said on …

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KYODO NEWS - 40 minutes ago - 14:35 | All, Coronavirus, JapanJapan will allow governors of all 47 prefectures to "strongly request" that their residents refrain from visiting nightclubs, hostess bars…

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