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Mori Building will partner with teamLab to open the Mori Building Digital Art Museum: teamLab Borderless this summer at Palette Town in Odaiba, Tokyo Bay.
Set to become one of the major attractions in Tokyo, details regarding opening times and ticket prices are yet to be released, ...

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NAHA - Official campaigning started Sunday for the Feb 4 mayoral election in the southern Japan city of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, a closely watch contest as it comes as the central government is pressing ahead with a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. base to the city.
The elec...

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MISAWA, Aomori (Jiji Press) — The first F-35A stealth fighter jet for the Air Self-Defense Force was deployed to its Misawa base in Aomori Prefecture on Friday.
Nine more units will arrive at the base by the end of March next year, to form a squadron of cutting-edge stealth jets ...

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For the next few months, Saga will be teaming up with Sagat and the rest of the Street Fighter II crew.
Saga Prefecture is no stranger to teaming up with video games such as Pokémon and Splatoon in the past with aggressive tourism campaigns. You might even say they have a fighter’s ...

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday he intends to attend the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which will be held in South Korea from Feb. 9.
Abe plans to hold talks with South Korean President Moon Jae In during his visit to the country, conveying Tokyo’s...

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Japanese ports have been bustling with an increasing number of foreign cruise passengers amid robust demand for ship tours that has led to the development of new services combining a voyage with rail or air travel.
In 2016, 1.99 million foreigners arrived in Japan on cruise ships, u...

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Of the 83,000 people in the 23 wards of Tokyo who reached the legal age of adulthood in Japan this year, around 10,000 — or one in eight — is classified as foreign, reports NHK.
This is largely due to the increase in young immigrants in Japan studying or enrolled on the Technical I...

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KAUNAS, Lithuania
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday honored a Japanese diplomat credited with saving an estimated 6,000 Jews from almost certain death in 1940 at a visit to the former Japanese consulate in Lithuania.
Chiune Sugihara was serving as Japanese consul in Kauna...

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TOKYO - A stricken Iranian oil tanker has drifted into Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), a spokesman for Japan's Coast Guard told Reuters on Friday, as strong winds pushed the burning ship away from the Chinese coast.
The ship, which has been ablaze for almost a week since it c...

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The government plans to allow the private sector to use satellite images and observation data held by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for free, according to sources.
The move is intended to encourage companies and other entities to take advantage of such data to dev...

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