ARAMA JAPAN
 
As previously reported, Shiina Ringo will release her new album, “Sandokushi”, on May 27, her 21st anniversary. The album is composed of various tracks she’s released in the four and a half years since the release of her last album, “Hi Izuru Tokoro”, as well as six new songs.
Two o...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - A car crash in Tokyo that killed a young girl and her mother while injuring eight others appears to have been the result of an error by an elderly driver in the absence of evidence suggesting mechanical trouble, police said Saturday.
The police found no brake marks at the sc...

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TOKYO HIVE
 
akahashi Issei's first single "Kimi ni Aitai -Dance with you-" will be released on June 5. 
 
Takahashi's debut song is being used in his starring drama 'Tokyo Dokushin Danshi', which premiered on April 13. It was written, composed, and produced by Miyamoto Hiroji (Elephant Kashimash...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - One week after an F-35A stealth fighter jet crashed off the northeastern coast of Japan, U.S. and Japanese military vessels are struggling to find the wreckage and protect its valuable "secrets."
The Japanese jet vanished from the radar on April 9 over the Pacific as it was ...

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DEFENSE NEWS
 
MELBOURNE, Australia — Japan has started combing the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean for the wreckage of its F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, two days after the aircraft crashed into waters off northern Japan.
Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya, addressing the media on Friday mor...

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ARAMA JAPAN
 
Japanese entertainment conglomerate Yoshimoto Kogyo and South Korean entertainment company CJ E&M will co-produce “Produce 101 Japan” based on the reality television talent competition franchise popular in South Korea and China.
A press conference was held on April 11 at Ebisu Act S...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Yoshitaka Sakurada, the minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday to take responsibility for controversial remarks he made in a speech.
Earlier on the day, Sakurada attended a party in Tokyo f...

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SORA NEWS
 
Train station staff in Japan are a dedicated bunch, committing themselves to provide the highest level of safety and professionalism to commuters that some other countries can only dream of.
But a public announcement on 4 April by Japan Railways East (JR East), the company running one...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
A promotional series of videos by Fukushima Prefecture promoting the region’s sake has run into the very thing it was trying to combat: the taint of contamination (and false information) that the prefecture has suffered, including its sake brewers, since the nuclear power plant dis...

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TOKYO HIVE
 
Fujiki Naohito's new album "20th -Grown Boy-" will drop on June 19. 
 
Fujiki started his musical activities when he released his single "Sekai no Hate ~the end of the world~" in July of 1999. "20th -Grown Boy-" will mark 20 years since his CD debut, and it will include songs provide...

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