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Sentinel’s New Geometric Pokémon Statues Will Add A New Dimension To Your Collection

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SORA NEWS
 
Catch them all to upgrade your figure shelf!  
As frequent visitors to the Pokémon Centers around Japan, we are always excited to see new Pokémon products coming out. We also know that Japanese model company Sentinel makes some pretty amazing figures, so we were pretty stoked to see t...

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Japan's New National Stadium Completed

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NHK
 
The main stadium of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been completed.
An inspection of the new National Stadium ended at noon on Saturday. It followed the completion of building work in mid-November. Construction began three years ago.
The stadium features traditional Japanese...

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More Than 70,000 Walk Along Inui Road At Imperial Palace

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - More than 70,000 people on Saturday walked along the Imperial Palace's Inui-dori (road) to enjoy the late autumn foliage.
By 3 p.m., more than 71,500 people had walked along the 750-meter-long road, palace officials said.  About 3,000 people were already lined up from early ...

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Japan’s Ex-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone Dies at 101

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VOA NEWS
 
TOKYO - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, a giant of his country’s post-World War II politics who pushed for a more assertive Japan while strengthening military ties with the United States, has died. He was 101.
The office of his son, Hirofumi Nakasone, confirmed that N...

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Japanese Store 'Rethinks' Badges For Staff On Periods

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BBC
 
A Japanese department store where staff could wear badges if they were on their period has said it will "rethink" that policy.
The badges - which featured a cartoon character known as Miss Period - were introduced in October.
The intention was that staff could get extra help, or longer brea...

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Hate Speech May Soon Be Punishable By A 500,000-Yen Fine In One Of Japan’s Largest Cities

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SORA NEWS
 
One of Tokyo’s neighbors may become the first place in Japan to enact punishment for hate speech.
A thick-skinned “Haters gonna hate” attitude can be an effective way of keeping petty jabs from getting under your skin, but many would argue it’s not the right stance for governments to ...

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Arashi Tops Nikkei Entertainment’s 2019 Concert Mobilization Power Ranking

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ARAMA JAPAN
 
Every year, Nikkei Entertainment releases a Japanese concert attendance ranking. This ranking is based on seating capacity for venues, not necessarily tickets sold.
Arashi topped the 2019 ranking with 1,818,000 attendees at 36 concerts. They were followed by Sandaime J SOUL BROTHERS...

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How To Watch A Sumo Match In Japan

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CNBC
 
There’s nothing like being there in person.
The Japanese sport of sumo has been around for more than 1,000 years. It was originally performed to entertain Shinto deities and then became a court entertainment before gaining popularity among the general public in the Edo era in the 17th and ...

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Japan’s Abe Presses China’s Wang on Hong Kong, Maritime Disputes

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BLOOMBERG
 
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged China to preserve a free Hong Kong and backed Beijing’s “one country, two systems” principle of governing it in a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, just as pro-democracy candidates triumphed in an election in the city.
Abe also “st...

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Christians gather in Nagasaki for Pope’s Mass

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
NAGASAKI (Reuters) — Japanese Christians lined up before dawn on Sunday to get seats at a Mass being said by Pope Francis in Nagasaki, where 27,000 people were killed instantly when the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan, effectively ending World War II.
Nagasaki...

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