ROCKET NEWS
 
Producer gives tentative timetable while promising Studio Ghibli is doing “things we were never able to do in the past.”
A lot of people in Japan are expecting 2020 to be a very big year. With Tokyo serving as the host city for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, the world’s eyes wil...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Tamiya has produced a self-assembly robotic toy with a difference: it’s a centipede.
Test your engineering skills by putting this Tamiya Centipede Robot together and then letting it slither around. Just be sure to warn your roommates and family first!
It comprises separate body sec...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
MELBOURNE (AP) — Japan star Keisuke Honda has signed for Melbourne Victory as a marquee player for the club in the 2018-19 Australian A-League season.
The Victory confirmed the signing Monday, making the 32-year-old Japanese international the club’s biggest signing in its 13-year...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
FUKUSHIMA
Call it an extreme makeover: In Japan's Fukushima, officials are attempting what might seem impossible, an image overhaul at the site of the worst nuclear meltdown in decades.
At the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, there's a flashy new administrative building, debris has ...

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ASAHI
 
HIROSHIMA--The conceptual drawing of the Atomic Bomb Dome has been discovered, showing the original structure before it was destroyed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Drawn by the Czech architect Jan Letzel (1880-1925), the watercolor painting of the Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Ex...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Transport operators are busy preparing for an influx of visitors from overseas during the 2020 Tokyo Games, with some accelerating the installation of equipment to show information in multiple languages and others hiring new staff to better welcome foreign tourists.
East Japan Railw...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
SAITAMA — Workers at one poultry farm have had their hands full spraying water on chickens to keep them cool this summer, as scorching heat continues across Japan.
The temperature inside Shinohara Yokeijo egg farm’s poultry houses reach 40 C on some mornings, according to the far...

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Shining Monday initiative sounds great for anyone who likes to party on Sunday night, or just would rather not be working on Monday morning.
Here’s a strange aspect of adult life. Even though Sunday is a day off for most people, Sunday night often is often the low point, in terms of...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Formerly one of the biggest advertisers in Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Company ceased running TV ads in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
 
Now it has returned to television screens in the Japanese capital with a new commercial, which conveys a message of household s...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - A university in Tokyo decided Monday it will dismiss two former coaches of its American football team over a dangerous late tackle by one of its players during an intercollegiate game in May that injured an opposing player.
Nihon University's decision comes after the governi...

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