ROCKET NEWS
 
200-year-old sake brewery teams up with Final Fantasy’s legendary designer for a very special Bahamut salute.
There are hundreds of sake makers in Japan, but there are a couple of things that make Fukui Prefecture’s Kokuryu stand out. One of those is its long history. The company ha...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO  -  Forty-two people were injured when wooden buildings housing a Japanese-style pub, a real estate agency and a clinic collapsed following a suspected gas explosion Sunday night in Sapporo, northern Japan, local authorities said.
The blast occurred at around 8:30 p.m. Sunday ...

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STRAITS TIMES
 
TOKYO - Japan plans to have an aircraft carrier for the first time since World War II, a move that has raised eyebrows even though Tokyo insists it will not mark any shift from its pacifist defence posture.
The plan to modify at least one of its two Izumo-class helicopter destroye...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
 
Regional revitalization minister Satsuki Katayama is the Cabinet member most widely seen by Japanese people as unfit to be a minister, a Jiji Press survey showed.
Katayama was chosen by 43.7 percent of respondents, who were asked which members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabine...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
The Yomiuri ShimbunWorkers dust under the eaves of the Great Main Hall of Naritasan Shinshoji temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, on Thursday.
Called susu-harai, the yearend dusting took place once a senior temple priest began the goma fire ritual just before 5 a.m. About 40 work...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Japan is planning to tighten regulation of tech giants like Google and Facebook after an expert panel called for better oversight on competition and privacy, an official said Thursday.
Japan has followed in the footsteps of other countries in scrutinising the dominant role p...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
The lingerie brand Triumph International has paid tribute to the soon-to-end Heisei period with a bra, skirt, and boots set.
Various elements in the clothing reference social and cultural changes in Japan over the past 30 years, including the pink trim that represents nadeshiko, th...

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Now you can make awesome sake like a pro, too.
Few alcoholic beverages out there offer the crystal clear and subtle taste profile of sake, otherwise known as Japanese rice wine.
Its characteristics may vary greatly depending on where it is made in Japan, but that is also precisely t...

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BBC
 
Japan has chosen the symbol meaning "disaster" to define the year 2018.
Television stations broadcast the announcement live as the master of an ancient temple in Kyoto wrote the winning term on a white panel.
In the annual vote, the public nominated this kanji character after experiencing a...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
STOCKHOLM – Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine at a ceremony Monday in Stockholm for his discovery of a protein on immune cells that paved the way for a new approach to cancer treatment.
The 76-year-old Kyoto native, clad in traditiona...

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