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And this year’s biggest student trend in Japan? Apparently it’s okashi ryukku — rucksacks make from candy and snacks.
This year social media has been awash with pictures of what school kids (especially girls) have created out of bags of potato chips and other packets of candy and snac...

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We’re sure most of you have already seen photos of the little capybaras bathing in their own private onsen hot spring at the Izu Shaboten Park in Shizuoka, Japan.
Now with a little creative food play, you can put your very own capybara in hot water…and eat them too. But what are they...

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Japan is already one of the safest countries in the world for humans, and now it seems it’s about to get a lot safer for turtles too…
The West Japan Railway Company and Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe have teamed up to make trains a whole lot safer for the slower, smaller, more-reptilian l...

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 Are you hosting a large event with lots of guests? Maybe it’s time to call in AI Samurai to help with crowd control!
Artificial intelligence is one of those hot issues that sparks a lot of debate but is ultimately kind of amorphous. Even defining just what, exactly, AI is can be a fr...

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 OSAKA —Kansai Electric Power Co has applied to the nuclear regulatory body for permission to operate a reactor in western Japan beyond the government-mandated 40-year service period.
The power company asked the Nuclear Regulation Authority for approval to continue to run a unit built...

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JAPAN TRENDS
Occupying ground somewhere between design and urban anthropology, Tokyo Totem, A Guide to Tokyo is a newly released guidebook about Japan’s capital city and ever-inspiring whirlpool of images and adventures.
Published by Flick Studio in Tokyo, the guide is a project by Dutch “urbanis...

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A little while ago, we reported on the moving, life-size R2-D2 refrigerator, which we thought was pretty darn cool. And now, it looks like we’ve found another amazing Star Wars item that’s sure to make fans’ mouths water. It’s a 1/43-scale model of the iconic Millennium Falcon, and th...

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JAPAN TRENDS
Want a free haircut? Of course!
But the free cut being offered by Mars Japan Limited for six days at weekends in Omotesando comes at a different sort of price. It’s kind of insane.
While Japan already has its fair dose of odd fashion and beauty trends, many of which manifest themselv...

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Narita International Airport’s much-anticipated third terminal opened on April 8th.
Three years in development, Terminal 3 is exclusively for low-cost carriers and short-haul flights.
The design has been handled by Nikken Sekkei, who also designed Tokyo Skytree. The terminal also fea...

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Only in Japan?
The Twittersphere in Japan has been discussing this energy drink, snapped by @kinoww. Energy drinks are commonly found in convenience stores and drug stores, and are typically a favorite of tired salarymen looking to get through the rest of the day. But for kids?
The c...

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