THE GUARDIAN
 
Japanese women are pushing back against a tradition that dictates they must give chocolates to male colleagues on Valentine’s Day, with growing anger at the practice of “forced giving”.
Until recently, women in the workplace were expected to buy chocolates for their male workmates ...

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ABS - CBN
 
MANILA -- Japan's top diplomat paid a courtesy call to President Rodrigo Duterte in his hometown in Davao City on Sunday, months after Tokyo's rival, Beijing, sent its chief envoy to the southern metropolis.
Duterte was "honored" by Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono's visit, which i...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
SEOUL - South Korean National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee Sang has called on Japanese Emperor Akihito to apologize to women forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels before his upcoming abdication, according to Bloomberg news service.
In an interview conducted on Thursday, M...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Nintendo has announced its first ever permanent, dedicated store in Tokyo, set to open this autumn inside the new Shibuya Parco department store currently under construction.
Details are slim at present but Nintendo Tokyo will, according to an official press release, offer game con...

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ARAMA JAPAN
 
Back in January, singer Kana Nishino suddenly announced that she would be taking a hiatus from all entertainment activities. Her hiatus would officially begin after the completion of her 3 day concert series “Kana Nishino Love Collection Live 2019”
The final day of the concert took ...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
A gigantic Othello board built by high school students at Nihon Gakuen in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, has been recognized as the largest in the world by Guinness World Records.
This was Nihon Gakuen’s second attempt at the record — an Othello board built by the school in 2012 failed to...

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ARAMA JAPAN
 
Today on the Johnny’s fanclub website, Arashi announced that they will suspend activities on December 31, 2020. The members of the group discussed their future together, and decided to pause their activities for the whole of 2020. Arashi also held a press conference to address their...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Japanese comedy just got much more robotic.
AIchan and GONta is a pair of robots, created to serve as a manzai-style stand-up comedy act. Developed by a special lab at Konan University, the two robots are supposed to trade jokes based on puns and wordplay, as manzai generally does,...

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CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
 
MINAMIBOSO, Japan: Neatly lining up sliced whale meat to make "jerky" in the wintry sea breeze, Tetsuya Masaki says whaling is just part of daily life in his tiny Japanese community of Minamiboso.
Japan sparked outrage in December when it decided to withdraw from the Internati...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
 
TOKYO - A Japan Airlines plane from New Delhi skidded off a snow-bound runway at Narita Airport on Friday, officials told AFP, briefly closing part of Tokyo's main hub.
Spokespeople from the airport and the carrier said the 201 passengers and crew had all been escorted off the Boe...

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