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This Nov. 15, 2019 photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter shows the new National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, in Tokyo. (Mainichi)TOKYO -…
An ex-student is labeling Seiseiko High School in Kumamoto prefecture as one such school, claiming corrupt traditions there cost him his education. He has since transferred to a corresponde…
KYODO NEWS - 2 hours ago - 10:16 | All, JapanJapan's household spending fell for the first time in 11 months in October, hurt by a 2 percent consumption tax hike implemented on Oct. 1 …
Japan is the safest country in the world for men in 2019, according to the Global Peace Index. “Yatta!” said one salaryman feeling really comfortable traveling to work by train. “Safety cou…
The Japanese film industry is slowly but surely dying. DEADLINE: Jeremy Thomas was a producer on First Love, and some of your previous films, how did that relationship first come about? TAK…
With nearly $100 billion in capital, SoftBank’s Vision Fund is the world’s largest tech investing fund. But in recent months, bigger has not proven to be better, and a series of scandals and sho…
The crane game, commonly called the UFO catcher in Japan, has the potential to be either the dizzying high or the abysmal low of your trip to an arcade. Once there, we gave him 10,000 yen (US$96…
KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 16:58 | Lifestyle, AllA department store in Osaka that suspended a campaign to allow female staff to wear badges indicating they were having their periods is plann…
The hard drives had been used for data sharing servers at the prefectural government office and were replaced with new ones in the spring. The prefectural government had deleted the data, but th…
Households cut their spending for the first time in almost a year in October as natural disasters disrupted business and the sales tax hike, from 8 percent to 10 percent, prompted consumers to rein i…
