JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - All Nippon Airways (ANA) is rolling out changes to its Premium Economy. Starting from April 1, 2019, traveling period, ANA will enable ANA Mileage Club members to reserve seats in Premium Economy with ANA award tickets. Furthermore, ANA will allow members to upgrade from Eco...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his talks next month and beyond with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be very significant as he seeks to settle a long-standing territorial dispute with the country over a group of islets and sign a postwar peace treaty.
"I will build next...

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BBC
 
Rescuers continued to search for survivors of a powerful earthquake on Japan's island of Hokkaido, as the death toll rose to 16.
Dozens are still missing with many feared buried under rubble after the magnitude 6.7 quake triggered landslides.
Some 1.6 million residents across Hokkaido remai...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday the government will boost efforts to achieve its target of 40 million visitors to Japan by 2020 as it seeks economic growth through tourism.
The number this year is already estimated to have surpassed 20 million on Aug. 15 and is expected to ecl...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Eight people died and thousands were taken to hospitals on Wednesday as a heat wave continued to scorch wide areas of Japan, sending the temperature to top 40 C in the central prefecture of Gifu, the highest recorded in the country in nearly five years.
The weather agency is...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
HIROSHIMA — A panel of experts working with Hiroshima city has created peace-themed tour routes that will be accessible via an app, as part of a “peace tourism” project aimed at visitors to the city.
Under the project, the municipal government has proposed routes for “peace tours...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Every week seems to bring news of yet another record broken for the numbers of tourists coming to Japan. And it’s easy to see why when we have videos like this.
The Akita-based video production company Armadas partnered with Nakanihon Air Service to produce this incredible 8K-resol...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan from January to April topped 10 million, reaching that level at the fastest pace on record, the Japan Tourism Agency said Thursday.
With the latest data, the annual number of overseas visitors to the country has now reached 1...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
More details and preview images have emerged for the Mori Building Digital Art Museum: teamLab Borderless, which is set to open this summer at Palette Town in the Tokyo Bay area of Odaiba.
 
Announced at the start of the year, the large digital immersion attraction is a further par...

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ROCKET NEWS
 
More information about the original story of the attraction was released as well as photos of some sweet limited-edition merchandise only available at this event!
For months we’ve known about the upcoming Sailor Moon attraction at Universal Studios Japan, but without much to go on e...

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