Just 2.5 hours by train from Tokyo is Toyama Prefecture, one of Japan’s smaller prefectures that borders Ishikawa and Nagano.
Shogawakyo Valley (above) and the Kaiwo Maru ship with the Tateyama Mount…

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Japanese musician Takahiro “Tak” Matsumoto of the rock duo B’z has sold the onetime Beverly Hills home of crooner Bobby Darin for $8.75 million.
The 8,500-square-foot home, which has a professional r…

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The Notsuke Peninsula is an approximately 28 kilometer long sand bar, which is said to have been formed thousands of years ago by sand deposits from the Shiretoko Peninsula in the north.
Notsuke Peni…

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As confusion spreads among many local authorities across Japan, some schools held their final classes or left facilities open for children who cannot stay home alone while their parents are at work.
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Sharp plans to start making face masks at one of its factories in Japan in response to surging demand sparked by the coronavirus outbreak, The Associated Press reports.
Sharp will make 150,000 masks …

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TOKYO -- Companies in Japan are scrambling to accommodate working parents after nationwide school closures aimed at fighting the coronavirus went into effect on Monday, just days after the move was a…

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In brief The Bank of Japan is slowing talk of a digital yen and calls for further international scrutiny on CBDCs.
After lawmakers in Japan had initially signaled that the country could move quickly …

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Since schools in Japan have been closed because of coronavirus, kids might need something to do.
And since their parents might not let them go out and about, Weekly Jump is making the digital version…

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ClosingsBunkamura (closed through 3/10)https://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/21_21Design Sight (closed through 3/12)http://www.2121designsight.jp/en/Mori Art Museum (closed through 3/13)https://www.mor…

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If I got scolded, I’d start to cry, which then made my boss yell ‘You’re a member of working society now.
!’ I ran in the back and cried.” (Female, working in a local bank)2.
Dealing with co-workers“…

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