Language barriers, transport mysteries, different cultural expectations and unfounded assumptions are key players in the “mistakes tourists make” game.
If you’re planning to visit Tokyo during sumo s…

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Sudden temporary closure has taken everyone by surprise.
Now the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo’s Mitaka is taking precautions against the spread of the flu-like virus by announcing that it will be closing f…

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However, in the wake of last week’s announcement of Japan’s first fatality from the virus, one ramen shop owner has established an even more strict ban: Japanese only.
This new rule was put in place …

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Showa Denko (SDK), the Japanese chemicals and electronics company, among other things, makes platters for disk drive makers such as Toshiba.
A 2019 annual results report reveals it is making MAMR (Mi…

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The poster explaining the reason for the closure of the family-run business is breaking hearts around the internet.
▼ Twitter user @Ki_46ozzie took this photo of the poster outside the Maruka soba re…

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JAXA, Japan’s national space agency, has just approved a robotic mission to visit the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos and retrieve a small sample from the former to bring back to Earth.
The mission p…

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The country is the first to successfully land rovers on an asteroid’s surface.
The journey: The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft set out on its mission to the 3,000-foot-wide Ryugu asteroid in 2014 and finaly a…

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Hayabusa2 has collected a second sample from the asteroid’s surface.
It could give us a unique insight into how the early solar system was formed.
The procedure: After a few hours of maneuvering, the…

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It turns out that a large part of it may be Japanese women themselves.
While Japan is nowhere near competitive in the area of high-profile women entrepreneurs, what the country needs is a grass-roots…

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Mitsubishi Electric has long been an advocate of the technology, adapting this standard kit and advancing it to the next level.
A glimpse into this high-tech future is afforded by the Mitsubishi Elec…

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