Trains were packed, flights full and highways congested on Sunday afternoon as the Obon holiday return rush peaked in Japan.
 
Narita and Haneda airport officials reported that almost all inbound flights were full, with around 65,000 travelers expected to return by the end of the day, Fuji TV rep...

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Japanese kengeki (swordplay dramas) may change forever after this film. That’s how impressive the innovative action scenes are in “Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen” (Rurouni Kenshin Kyoto Inferno).
The film is a sequel to “Rurouni Kenshin,” and both films are based on the Nobuhiro Watsuki manga o...

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Powerful Typhoon No. 11 had diminished to a tropical depression above the west coast of Hokkaido as of 9 a.m. Monday. However, it brought record rainfall and flooded many rivers on Shikoku island and the southern part of the Kinki region on Sunday before traveling to the north above the Sea of Ja...

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With six years to go before Tokyo hosts the 2020 Olympics, the government has fired the starting pistol on efforts to boost global cooperation in sports.
They include the launch on July 26 of the Tsukuba International Academy for Sport Studies, which aims to become an international center for the...

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Do you see the multitude of vending machines everywhere? Notice there are no red buttons in Summer because all the drinks inside are cold. You can use your suica pre-paid train card to buy your cool drink on the platform and it is not against protocol to drink it down before you board the train. ...

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JR Tokai, a railway operator in central Japan, is scheduled to begin construction this autumn on the Linear Chuo Shinkansen line. The line's magnetically levitated, or maglev, trains will be the fastest in the world, running at up to 500kph.
The train reaches speeds more common to airplanes by us...

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Japan’s smoking rate in 2014 fell below 20 percent for the first time since such statistics began being compiled in 1965, Japan Tobacco Inc. said on Wednesday (08/30/14).
The rate dropped for the 19th consecutive year to stand at 19.7 percent, down 1.2 points from the previous year.
The decline r...

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