- By Koji Tanaka Japan News
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April 25, 2024
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Working remotely from tourist resorts and other vacation destinations is attracting attention, and efforts are growing to turn hot spring inns into offices.
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- By Shinichi Sano Japan News
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April 18, 2024
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A collaboration between industry, government and academic partners has led to a syrup featuring a new variety of pepper developed in the city of Kawasaki.
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A giant cherry blossom tree made of hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks is attracting visitors to the Legoland Japan Resort theme park in Minato ward, Nagoya.
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- By Japan News
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April 18, 2024
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Lively versions of beer and karinto, a deep-fried flour and brown sugar snack, both made using habanero and other extremely spicy chiles, hit the shelves at Michi-no-Eki Hirata, a roadside rest area in Hirata, Fukushima prefecture, in January.
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Watching “Oppenheimer,” the Oscar-winning biopic about the father of the atomic bomb that opened in Japan in late March, Kako Okuno was stunned by a scene in which scientists celebrated the explosion over Hiroshima with thunderous foot stomping and the waving of American flags.
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- By Takashi Kondo Japan News
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April 4, 2024
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The Oscar successes of “Godzilla Minus One” and “The Boy and the Heron” are likely to push the Japanese film industry further toward an international strategy.
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One Japanese creation that grabbed attention at the Oscars wasn’t a movie: It was the kitsch shoes that seemed to be clenched in Godzilla’s claw.
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- By Japan News
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March 28, 2024
The Cultural Affairs Agency is examining the conditions of original drawings by leading manga artists in Japan and researching methods for preserving them.
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- By Jin Kiyokawa Japan News
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March 28, 2024
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Pottery artisan Genji Shimizu, 78, creates each piece of his kyusu (teapots) one by one in a fluid motion that wastes no energy.
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- By Rie Hayashi Japan News
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March 21, 2024
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Gibier cuisine, which features game meat from such animals as deer and wild boar, is rising in popularity.
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- By Japan News
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March 21, 2024
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A giant mural of dinosaurs is on display near Fukui Station, where a new high speed train, the Hokuriku Shinkansen, is set to stop beginning Saturday.
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- By Motoko Rich, Hisako Ueno and Kiuko Notoya New York Times
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March 14, 2024
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The economy is now in recession after barely growing for decades. The population continues to shrink, with births last year plunging to a nadir.
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- By Rie Hayashi Japan News
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March 7, 2024
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A fluffy castella cake, fatty tuna nigiri sushi and takoyaki (octopus dumplings) with rich sauce — they look so good that you might be tempted to eat them. But they are actually works of art carved from wood.
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- By Japan News
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March 7, 2024
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A 66-pound Sakurajima daikon (radish) took a top award at an annual contest held in late January at the foot of the vegetable’s namesake volcano, Mount Sakurajima, in Kagoshima City.
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- By Japan News-Yomiuri
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Feb. 29, 2024
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Amid recovering demand for tourism, a bridal company in Matsue, Shimane prefecture, is planning wedding photography tours for foreign tourists in Japan.
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- By Japan News
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Feb. 29, 2024
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The Justice Ministry is allowing male inmates to purchase or be given beauty items and a few other products that traditionally have been allowed only for female inmates.
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Flowers blossoming like pink chiffon, luscious berries and fluttering goldfish make for the delicate but defiant beauty that’s signature Mika Ninagawa.
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The full recovery of visitor arrivals from Japan, one of Hawaii’s most coveted source markets, continues to fall short, and a complete return to 2019 levels could take until 2026.
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