VARIETY
 
 
“Sky Castle,” one of the most iconic Korean TV drama series of recent years, is to be remade by TV Asahi in Japan.
The move follows the signing of a cooperation agreement between Korean content powerhouse SLL (previously known as JTBC Studios) and TV Asahi just last month. The two com...

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HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
 
The United States needs Japan's help to quickly replenish missile inventory and repair warships as conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine continue and Washington seeks to keep its deterrence credible in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. ambassador to Japan said.
"It is clear that...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The proportion of Japanese working adults who sleep five hours or less a day stood at 11.5%, down by roughly half from 25 years ago, according to a recent survey by Citizen Watch.
The share of such people stood at 22.8% in the 1999 survey.
The health ministry recommends at least six...

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NEWS AZ
 
EcoNews portal has published an article highlighting Japan’s announcement of the world’s first green fuel. News.Az reprints the article.
The Asian sustainable mobility market is striving to overtake America, and in some ways they are succeeding in doing so. We saw it with the “merger”...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
A tall metal fence will be built to control unruly tourists who have annoyed locals at a popular Mount Fuji photo spot, a Japanese official said Thursday.
It follows the construction last month of a black screen in another nearby town to block an Instagram-famous view of the snow-ca...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's household spending in April rose a real 0.5 percent from a year earlier for the first increase in 14 months, lifted by increased outlays on education and clothing amid warm temperatures, government data showed Friday.
While a three-day holiday in the reporting month also help...

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TEMPO
 
Indonesia is the second-largest exporter of ornamental fish in the world after Japan, said Budi Sulistyo, Director General of Marine Fishery Products Competitiveness at the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries.
Budi believed that the country could become the world’s top exporter of su...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
UFO sightings should not be dismissed out of hand because they could in fact be surveillance drones or weapons, say Japanese lawmakers who launched a group on Thursday to probe the matter.
The non-partisan group, which counts former defense ministers among its 80-plus members, will ...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
The new Fantasy Springs area officially opened to the public on Thursday at Tokyo DisneySea in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture.
The area offers rides and restaurants inspired by the popular animated films “Frozen,” “Tangled,” and “Peter Pan.” One such attraction in the Peter Pan section fe...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will launch its own dating app as early as this summer as part of government efforts to boost the dwindling national birth rate, an official said Tuesday.
Users will be required to submit documentation proving they are legally single and sign a lett...

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