Toshihiro Nagahama, chief economist at the Dai-ichi Life Research Institute, takes a critical stance toward Abe's explanation about the amount of fiscal spending.
Since days before the Cabinet approv…

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From The Wages of Guilt to The Rape of Nanking, here are nine books to get your Japanese history on.
From shoguns to World War II and beyond, Japanese history is a goldmine of fascinating tales sure …

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Come this spring, Yokohama will be getting another museum, and this one is filled with crap.
And no, we’re not trying to be dismissive of art or science, because it really is dedicated to poo.
Unberu…

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KYODO NEWS - 6 minutes ago - 18:25 | All, Japan, CoronavirusJapan's Cabinet approved a largest-ever 108 trillion yen ($990 billion) stimulus package on Tuesday to help struggling households and busin…

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The Lego Group did reveal, though, that there will be a special Lego Super Mario app that keeps track of your scores, offers digital instruction manuals, a forum for sharing ideas, and suggestions fo…

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KYODO NEWS - 39 minutes ago - 14:32 | All, JapanJapanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will return to the International Space Station, this time transported by a spacecraft developed by U.S. aerospace man…

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fuji, irugi, jomon, kaizuka, osaki, shinagawa, yamanote line居木神社Irugi Jinja (Irugi Shrine)・So the other day, I wrote about 大崎 Ōsaki and I mentioned a shrine called Irugi Shrine.
Apparently, the shrin…

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Instead, you should have a dedicated business card case, something stylish or elegant…or super, super steampunk.
Really, though, it’s the Mechanical Card Case that Opens with a “Kasha!” (Steampunk) f…

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Japan's government is set to compile an emergency economic package of 108 trillion yen, or about one trillion dollars, to fight the impact of the coronavirus epidemic in the country.
The scale of the…

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Tokyo — In what was seen as a long-awaited bow to the inevitable, Japanese Prime Minister Abe has announced he will declare a national state of emergency over the growing coronavirus epidemic in the …

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