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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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JAPAN TODAY
 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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JAPAN TRENDS
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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Transplanting yourself into another country can help you learn the language, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll absorb every bit of the culture. This image is a perfect example of that: Your understanding will depend entirely on how familiar you are with Japanese culture and histo...

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Recently, Narita Airport has been on a mission to reinvent itself from dull and controversial Chiba hub to an exciting destination with a running track LCC terminal and Kabuki experience center.
Now Haneda is undergoing a mini make-over, courtesy of Mercedes-Benz.
From July 22nd, Han...

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