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Back to SearchBrussels Flower Carpet Pays Homage to Hokusai's "Great Wave"
A popular flower carpet event kicked off in Brussels on Thursday, featuring a design inspired by an iconic work of renowned traditional Japanese ukiy…
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Japanese Crown Prince Declines to Discuss Revised Law
Japanese Crown Prince Akishino declined to discuss the revised Imperial House Law, enacted last month, at a press conference at the Akasaka East Resi…
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Quake-Hit Kumamoto's Tourism Sector Suffers 6-B.-Yen Blow
Amid the summer holiday season, the tourism industry in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, is suffering a 6-billion-yen blow from the recent ma…
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83-Year-Old VTuber Posts Wartime Memories of Manchuria
An 83-year-old virtual YouTuber, or VTuber, who was born in Manchuria, now northeastern China, during World War II and returned to Japan at an early …
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Google Opens 1st Directly Run Store outside U.S. in Tokyo
U.S. technology giant Google LLC opened its first directly run store outside the United States in Tokyo's Omotesando fashionable district Thursday.
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44 Pct Support Passage of Secondary Capital Bill: Jiji Poll
A Jiji Press survey showed Thursday that 44.8pctof respondents welcomed the recent enactment of a bill to create a secondary capital of Japan that wo…
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Chinese EV Makers Targeting Japanese Market
Chinese automakers are banking on the Japanese electric vehicle market as they struggle with slowing growth in their home market and high tariffs in …
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Kumamoto Castle Reopens 2 Weeks after Massive Quake
Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto Prefecture reopened to the public Thursday, about two weeks after a powerful earthquake struck the southwestern Japan pre…
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Takaichi Cabinet's Approval Rate Almost Flat at 48.4 Pct: Jiji Poll
Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's cabinet edged down 0.6 percentage point from the previous month to 48.4pctin August, a Ji…
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Japan Protests Putin's Visit to Disputed Pacific Island
Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi released a statement Thursday protesting Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to one of the four disp…
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