THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Taishi Nakagawa has stirred a sensation among TV viewers with his youthful, dignified performance in the final few months of “Sanadamaru,” NHK’s taiga annual period drama that will be broadcast through mid-December. The drama, which has had high viewership, focuses on samurai war...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit this month to Pearl Harbor will be a historic gesture that represents the strength of the Japan-U.S. alliance and the evolution of the bilateral relationship since World War II.
But the trip is also rooted in pragmatism amid uncertainties surroundin...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
The Tokyo Metro Ginza Line will start offering subway passengers free wi-fi on trains from December 1st, aimed particularly at visitors from overseas.
Tokyo Metro partners with NTT Broadband Platform and Wire and Wireless to offer three networks on subway trains (Metro_Free_Wi-Fi, ...

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Over a whirlwind two months, Hideki Matsuyama boosted his hopes of becoming the first Japanese golfer to win a major title in the U.S. PGA tour.
Starting in October, the 24-year-old experienced three “firsts” in his career at tournaments in Japan and abroad. His victory at the Ja...

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ROCKET NEWS
 
The electric Pokémon has moved into a Pokébox and now he’s hungry for your coins!
The “Itazura Bank” (“Prank Bank”) is an adorable battery-operated money-saving box that started with a cute cat-in-the-box several years ago and has since expanded to include collaborations with Hello ...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Masamichi Katayama’s Wonderwall has helped reopen the designer bar The Bank in the city of Kamakura, west of Tokyo. With interior design by Wonderwall, it has been restored to the way it was when it was run by the late art director Kaoru Watanabe.
 
The original venue opened in 200...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO — The controversial relocation of Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market will not take place for at least one year due to pending safety checks at the replacement site, even if the metropolitan government decides to go ahead with the move, Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike said Friday.
The relocati...

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TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left Tokyo on Thursday on a weeklong trip to the United States, Peru and Argentina, during which he will hold talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for the first time.
At the meeting with Trump in New York on Thursday evening,...

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TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Maritime Self-Defense Force icebreaker Shirase left Tokyo’s Harumi pier for Showa Station, Japan’s Antarctic research facility, on Friday morning.
About 80 crew members, including wintering party members of the 58th Antarctic research expedition team, wil...

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TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his visiting Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, traveled on a Shinkansen bullet train together from Tokyo to the western Japan city of Kobe on Saturday.
India has already decided to adopt the Shinkansen system for the high-speed ...

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