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The government has announced its aim to attract one million Japanese tourists to Indonesia by 2019 on the back of revamped tourism policies.
I Gde Pitana, deputy of overseas tourism development at the Tourism Ministry, said that the number of Japanese tourists arrivals have begun to ...

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JAPAN TRENDS
“Schoolgirl Animals” is an exhibition currently running at BAMI Gallery in Kyoto until May 31st, featuring an array of beguiling images of female school students in their uniforms and other schoolgirl paraphernalia, but with incongruous animal heads.
The solo exhibition showcases the...

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JAPAN TRENDS
Back in 2012, Yusuke Oono was one of the winners of the You Face contest with a palm-sized, fan-style 3D picture book.
Now Loftwork, the agency behind the original awards, has got together with publisher Seigensha to offer Oono’s design as two “360-degree” picture books.
One retells ...

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JAPAN TRENDS
Almost no sight says “Tokyo” more than Shibuya’s “scramble crossing”, the immense intersection in front of the Hachiko exit of the station in which multiple banks of pedestrians converge on each other like a battle scene from a movie.
Trying to weave through the crowds can be tricky,...

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ROCKET NEWS
And this year’s biggest student trend in Japan? Apparently it’s okashi ryukku — rucksacks make from candy and snacks.
This year social media has been awash with pictures of what school kids (especially girls) have created out of bags of potato chips and other packets of candy and snac...

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We’re sure most of you have already seen photos of the little capybaras bathing in their own private onsen hot spring at the Izu Shaboten Park in Shizuoka, Japan.
Now with a little creative food play, you can put your very own capybara in hot water…and eat them too. But what are they...

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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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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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