(CNN) — It's easy to see why Takehiro Kishimoto, chef by day and food carving Instagrammer by night, has amassed a huge social media following.
The Kobe-based Japanese chef has long been practicing m…

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Sony has announced that Ghost of Tsushima, Sucker Punch’s action-adventure game set in feudal Japan, will be coming out in just a few months on June 26th.
Sony also released a new story trailer for t…

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The coronavirus crisis has made surgical masks the most coveted commodity in Japan.
The situation has gotten so bad that both robberies and fist fights have taken place as some people resort to extre…

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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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