ROCKET NEWS
 Japanese pop group Perfume and American band OK Go have teamed up to create a theme song for the new Japanese anime “Sushi Police”.
To celebrate 20 years of broadcasting, Japanese TV channel Tokyo MX will be releasing a new 3DCG anime called Sushi Police, set to debut on January 6. T...

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JAPAN TRENDS
Before you ever stepped foot on Japanese soil, you probably envisioned a society in complete integration with technology. Yet, when you got here, citizens communicated via flip phones with seemingly no sense of technology shame, workers with manual click counters manned entranceways ...

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JAPAN TRENDS
A new exhibition event in Shibuya will turn all male visitors into crossdressers.
All right, let’s qualify that.
The exhibition, held in December and January at Shibuya Parco Museum, is a promo for the upcoming live-action film adaptation of the manga “Princess Jellyfish”.
The origin...

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JAPAN TIMES
The biannual International Robot Exhibition kicked off Wednesday in Tokyo, showcasing the latest advances in robotics — including technology for use in disaster scenarios and in the nursing-care field.
With a record 446 firms attending the event at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward, numero...

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JAPAN TRENDS
Shibaura House is a community space in the Tokyo district of Shibaura, a neighborhood in the south of the city near the port. The stylish glass building is designed by Kazuyo Sejima and hosts private functions, as well as regular workshops and art events.
Sometimes these can be creat...

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ROCKET NEWS
Japan’s two Sanrio theme parks are holding a one-day event on December 4 filled with shows, special events and your favorite characters. The best part is that it will cost you absolutely nothing to get in that day!
Sanrio Puroland in Tokyo and Harmonyland in Oita are two of the best p...

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Tokyo Skytree has a brilliant light display in store for four days only, and it’s designed to represent three of Japan’s signature dishes: tamago kake gohan (egg with rice), o-nabe (Japanese hot pot), and takikomi gohan (seasoned steamed rice).
The special light-up show, which runs fr...

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JAPAN TIMES
Despite being one of Japan’s most famous artists, it has been 14 years since Takashi Murakami has had a solo exhibition here. On the eve of his show, “Takashi Murakami: The 500 Arhats,” The Japan Times spoke with the artist to find out why it has taken so long and what he feels about ...

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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo is cooperating with Second Harvest Japan again to bring back the 100,000 Meal Challenge, a social media and donation-matching campaign which will run through Nov 15.
The campaign aims to raise funds equivalent to 100,000 meals. Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo h...

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JAPAN TODAY
 TOKYO —The JTB corporation, established in 1912, has been planning and booking vacations for hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens and foreign visitors for decades. Although many in the West now prefer to book online, in Japan it’s still quite common to call up your local travel...

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