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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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
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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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
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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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
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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JAPAN TIMES
 
Japan may have a long way to go before it can build a fully functional Gundam or Doraemon, but it’s getting closer to bringing sci-fi-style robotic helpers and protectors into our daily lives. Japan Robot Week, which took place at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center from Oct. 19 t...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the National Police Agency has been allocating foreign-speaking police officers for around-the-clock help at koban police boxes at tourist sites or in downtown areas busy with foreign tourists.
The police officers have been or wil...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to underscore the importance of the Japan-U.S. alliance when he meets President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on Sunday.
“This is going to be an important meeting to build trust,” Kishida told publ...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO — Japan and India signed a civilian nuclear accord on Friday, opening the door for Tokyo to supply New Delhi with fuel, equipment and technology for nuclear power production, as India looks to atomic energy to sustain its rapid economic growth.
It was the first time Japan, the...

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