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By Kanta Ishida / Yomiuri Shimbun Senior SpecialistThe manga this week
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By Yipiao, Yujiro Koyama (Shueisha)
When I finished reading the manga featured this week, I was reminded of the famous phrase: “As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of ...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
I have never met a single person who didn’t cry during that first montage of UP, and I hope I never do. Pixar has consistently managed to combine the latest technology in computer animation with expert storytelling, creating fan favorites such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Ratatouill...

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday revealed a plan to make Fukushima Prefecture a center for the development of hydrogen energy technology in Japan.
According to his plan, dubbed “Fukushima new energy society initiative,” facilities will be developed in the...

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Nintendo is reaching back into its history for its latest release, bringing the 3DS LL handheld console out in a Super Famicom design.
The Super Famicom (marketed as Super NES outside Japan) was released in 1990 in Japan and defined gaming for a generation. The 16-bit game console ...

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By Shota Mizuno and Masaomi Shimosato / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
Corporate bonds and local government bonds have become a magnet for investors since the Bank of Japan decided in late January to adopt negative interest rates.
The bonds issued by private companies and local go...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
INUPATHY is the world’s first “dog mental visualizer”, allowing owners and dogs to have a better communication by showing your pet’s emotional state as a color on the light collar. It uses an algorithm to analyze heart rate patterns via sensors on the belt and expresses these throu...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO —Move over, Arashi! Step aside, Exile! There’s a newer, older boy band in town. These guys creating a buzz.
JI-POP (爺-POP) is a more mature “boy” band brought together to help promote tourism in Kochi Prefecture. The “JI” in their name comes from the Japanese word “ojisan,” m...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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