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New Dress Collection By Up-and-coming Japanese Fashion Label, Inspired by Traditional Paper Patterns
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ROCKET NEWS
Made in Japan fashion brand yucasii tokyo releases a full line of dresses designed with Japanese paper prints in mind.
In 2014, Japanese fashion designer Yuka Yoshida began her yucasii fashion label, its namesake taken from yukashii, an older Japanese word meaning “high quality” and...
Made in Japan fashion brand yucasii tokyo releases a full line of dresses designed with Japanese paper prints in mind.
In 2014, Japanese fashion designer Yuka Yoshida began her yucasii fashion label, its namesake taken from yukashii, an older Japanese word meaning “high quality” and...
- March 3, 2016
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Japan's Cat Island Finds Purr-fect Solution To Food Crisis
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — An army of cats ruling a remote Japanese island are licking their whiskers after a plea for food aid triggered a flood of donations from across the country.
More than 140 cats occupy the tiny island of Aoshima in southern Japan—outnumbering humans by eight to one—but when th...
TOKYO — An army of cats ruling a remote Japanese island are licking their whiskers after a plea for food aid triggered a flood of donations from across the country.
More than 140 cats occupy the tiny island of Aoshima in southern Japan—outnumbering humans by eight to one—but when th...
- March 2, 2016
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Seventh New Dinosaur Discovery Confirmed In Japan
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JAPAN TIMES
JIJI
FUKUI – A new kind of dinosaur has been confirmed in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, researchers said Friday, bringing the number of species discovered in Japan to seven.
According to fossil analysis, the new creature was a small theropod that had both primitive and derived feat...
JIJI
FUKUI – A new kind of dinosaur has been confirmed in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, researchers said Friday, bringing the number of species discovered in Japan to seven.
According to fossil analysis, the new creature was a small theropod that had both primitive and derived feat...
- February 27, 2016
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Intelligent Park Chair by Nissan Is Self-Parking Office Furniture
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JAPAN TRENDS
Do you work in a lazy office? Don’t worry. Even office chairs can now self-park.
Nissan has created the Intelligent Park Chair, inspired by its Intelligent Parking Assist system for cars.
The furniture uses four motion cameras on the walls and wi-fi. Just command the chairs with a ...
Do you work in a lazy office? Don’t worry. Even office chairs can now self-park.
Nissan has created the Intelligent Park Chair, inspired by its Intelligent Parking Assist system for cars.
The furniture uses four motion cameras on the walls and wi-fi. Just command the chairs with a ...
- February 26, 2016
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Japan's Olympic Soccer Teams To Train in Nuclear Clean-up Zone
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JAPAN TIMES
TOKYO — Japan’s Olympic soccer teams will train for the Tokyo 2020 Games at a complex currently being used as a base for thousands of workers cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
The Japan Football Association (JFA) said Monday that the Japanese men’s and women’s teams ...
TOKYO — Japan’s Olympic soccer teams will train for the Tokyo 2020 Games at a complex currently being used as a base for thousands of workers cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
The Japan Football Association (JFA) said Monday that the Japanese men’s and women’s teams ...
- February 25, 2016
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Media Freedom in Japan Anchors Away
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ECONOMIST
Criticism Of Government Is Being Airbrushed Out Of News Shows
FOR a decade, millions of Japanese have tuned in to watch Ichiro Furutachi, the salty presenter of a popular evening news show, TV Asahi’s “Hodo Station”. But next month Mr Furutachi will be gone. He is one of three heavywei...
Criticism Of Government Is Being Airbrushed Out Of News Shows
FOR a decade, millions of Japanese have tuned in to watch Ichiro Furutachi, the salty presenter of a popular evening news show, TV Asahi’s “Hodo Station”. But next month Mr Furutachi will be gone. He is one of three heavywei...
- February 24, 2016
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As Residents And Reactors Age, Fukui’s Fortunes Fade
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THE JAPAN TIMES
OSAKA – On a gray winter day late last month alternating between rain and sleet, many in the Sea of Japan town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, were feeling sunny. For the restart of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama plant No. 3 reactor means not only a return to nuclear power,...
OSAKA – On a gray winter day late last month alternating between rain and sleet, many in the Sea of Japan town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, were feeling sunny. For the restart of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama plant No. 3 reactor means not only a return to nuclear power,...
- February 23, 2016
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The Future Is (almost) Now With Mitsubishi’s Proposed “Aerial Display” Hologram Tech
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ROCKET NEWS
Mitsubishi says it’s coming close to perfecting the kind of floating “hologram” images seen in sci-fi films—and it hopes to introduce the “Aerial Display” technology in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The “holographic” performances of fictional android singer Hatsune Miku might se...
Mitsubishi says it’s coming close to perfecting the kind of floating “hologram” images seen in sci-fi films—and it hopes to introduce the “Aerial Display” technology in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The “holographic” performances of fictional android singer Hatsune Miku might se...
- February 23, 2016
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Hatsune Miku iDoll Is Singing, Dancing Mini Robot
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JAPAN TRENDS
Regular readers will recall the iDoll, a mini robotic doll prototype by Hakuhodo and Yukai Engineering.
In another effort to promote the prototype and expand its commercial prospects, the designers have now created a version with the Vocaloid idol Hatsune Miku.
The Hatsune Miku i...
Regular readers will recall the iDoll, a mini robotic doll prototype by Hakuhodo and Yukai Engineering.
In another effort to promote the prototype and expand its commercial prospects, the designers have now created a version with the Vocaloid idol Hatsune Miku.
The Hatsune Miku i...
- February 22, 2016
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Uno, Mura Miss Podium as Chan Wins Four Continents
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THE JAPAN TIMES
TAIPEI – Shoma Uno finished fourth and Takahito Mura fifth at the Four Continents Championships on Sunday as Canada’s Patrick Chan won the event for the third time.
Uno, in second after a personal-high 92.99 points in the short program, was only able to add another 176.82 poin...
TAIPEI – Shoma Uno finished fourth and Takahito Mura fifth at the Four Continents Championships on Sunday as Canada’s Patrick Chan won the event for the third time.
Uno, in second after a personal-high 92.99 points in the short program, was only able to add another 176.82 poin...
- February 22, 2016
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