Back in 2008, a Bank of Korea report found that of 5,586 companies older than 200 years in 41 countries, 56% of them were in Japan.
In 2019, there were over 33,000 businesses in Japan over a century …

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Poetically translated to “golden joinery,” Kintsugi, or Kintsukuroi, is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery.
Rather than rejoin ceramic pieces with a camouflaged adhesive, the Kin…

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On Feb 13, 2020Each week GaijinPot looks through its database of jobs and selects the best opportunities for finding and securing a career in Japan from overseas.
Your main duty will be to teach and …

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This lack of snow, combined with unusually warm weather, threw some wrenches in the plan for the snow festival organizers.
This year, they had to source and tow snow from other towns to create 200-pl…

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Just a few weeks ago, we introduced you to the awesome stylings of the Twin Chef rice cooker, a nifty new kitchen gadget from Japan that lets you cook curry and rice simultaneously at the push of a b…

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On March 15, 2013, the Shibuya Station Toyoko Line above-ground train quietly shut down for good, to be replaced with a new section of subway track connecting Shibuya Station and the nearby Daikanyam…

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The number of deadly accidents caused by the elderly dropped 59 from 2018, according to the National Police Agency.
The number of fatal traffic accidents per 100,000 license holders aged 75 or older …

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Image : ASCIIFor years now, the live-action Akira film has languished in development hell.
The project has cycled through a handful of directors, but the current attached director, Taika Waititi, now…

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Released in Japan this past December, the soft reboot of Sega’s long-running steampunk mecha series, simply titled Sakura Wars, is set to release on PlayStation 4 on April 28.
It’s Sakura Wars, and S…

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Back in the less-wild, more lawful days of region locking, a new game featuring virtual songstress Hatsune Miku coming out on a Nintendo system in Japan meant a run on import shops.
But the Switch is…

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