SORA NEWS
 
You can take home the magic of Hogwarts with you right from Osaka.
We know there are a lot of Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts fans in Osaka thanks to Universal Studios Japan’s Harry Potter World, but now you can enjoy that fandom outside of USJ and the Wizarding World Cafe.
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TOKYO HIVE
 
akahashi Issei's first single "Kimi ni Aitai -Dance with you-" will be released on June 5. 
 
Takahashi's debut song is being used in his starring drama 'Tokyo Dokushin Danshi', which premiered on April 13. It was written, composed, and produced by Miyamoto Hiroji (Elephant Kashimash...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - One week after an F-35A stealth fighter jet crashed off the northeastern coast of Japan, U.S. and Japanese military vessels are struggling to find the wreckage and protect its valuable "secrets."
The Japanese jet vanished from the radar on April 9 over the Pacific as it was ...

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BBC
 
The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has begun removing nuclear fuel from a building housing one of the reactors that melted down after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Remotely controlled equipment is lifting fuel rods from a storage pool near reactor number three.
The delicate ...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Did you know that Frieza is a businessman? Yes, the Vicious God from the imagination of Akira Toriyama is taking a change in career from battling Goku et al. He is now joining the team at your office as the new boss. Yikes!
As the Frieza Salaryman PC Cushion, he’s certainly got the...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
 
 
Japan, gearing up to accept more foreign workers under its new visa system launched earlier this month, held a qualification exam for applicants for the first time Sunday.
The exam, which took place at several locations across the country, focused on checking knowledge and skill...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
With Saturday marking 500 days before the opening of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, a promotional bus featuring Someity, the mascot for the Tokyo Paralympics, and pink Someiyoshino cherry tree flowers, drove around the construction site for the new National Stadium in Shinjuku Ward,...

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DEFENSE NEWS
 
MELBOURNE, Australia — Japan has started combing the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean for the wreckage of its F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, two days after the aircraft crashed into waters off northern Japan.
Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya, addressing the media on Friday mor...

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BBC
 
Japan's Olympics Minister Yoshitaka Sakurada has resigned over comments that offended people affected by a huge tsunami and earthquake in 2011.
At a fund-raising event, he suggested that backing the governing LDP member of parliament for the region was more important than its economic reviv...

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ARAMA JAPAN
 
Japanese entertainment conglomerate Yoshimoto Kogyo and South Korean entertainment company CJ E&M will co-produce “Produce 101 Japan” based on the reality television talent competition franchise popular in South Korea and China.
A press conference was held on April 11 at Ebisu Act S...

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