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Sounds like this might be the best Good Meat Day ever.
When the Earl of Sandwich made history by sitting down to a card game and creating the greatest, most versatile food stuff ever, he knew that the thing he gave his name to was just a vehicle for getting the filling to his mouth ...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Students in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, have created dinosaur sculptures using rice straw from farmers affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
There are six straw dinosaurs on display. The biggest is a stegosaurus that measures a whopping six meters. Visitors brave en...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - The maglev station currently being built at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo was opened to the media for the first time Friday since work began last year.
Central Japan Railway Co (JR Tokai) showed media the construction site which is 40 meters below Shinagawa Station. The new sta...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Oedo Waen, an event at which visitors can enjoy newly brewed sake and soba made from the new buckwheat crop, started Thursday at Yoyogi Park in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.
At the four-day event subtitled “an exposition of soba and Japanese sake,” about 100 brands of sake from across the...

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The organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games have sent information to elementary schools in Japan, offering students the chance to participate in a vote for the official 2020 Olympics mascot.
Over 21,000 schools received postcards with details on the voting process...

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Hit anime/manga Fullmetal Alchemist characters Edward and Alphonse Elric have transformed again, but this time it’s not the result of alchemy.
Edward and Alphonse Elric have transformed again, but this time it’s not the result of alchemy. Sanrio, the company famous for characters su...

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TOKYO - A fierce cold snap has clamped down on Japan since last weekend, and while we’re bundling up with coats and scarves to keep out the chill, the weather also has us looking for ways to warm up from the inside.
One of Japan’s favorite cold-weather comfort foods is cream stew, w...

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I know this week’s manga has been quite popular for some time, but I somehow left it aside due to its fairytale-like title and front cover illustrations. After reading it, however, I thought I should have read it much earlier. It seems to be on its way to becoming one of the dark...

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Why settle for hot chocolate, when you can have hot mint chocolate?
Last summer, Japan went on a huge mint chocolate kick. Sure, the flavor has been a mainstay of supermarket freezer sections for decades, but this year you could find all sorts of sweets, from Western-style cookies t...

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We previously wrote about the initial release of the UnlimitedHand haptic wearable controller in 2015.
We are pleased to see that start-up H2L’s development on the prototype continued, now configuring it to work with a new pair of virtual reality goggles, the FirstVR.
 
Though ther...

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