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Mori Building And teamLab To Open “borderless” Digital Art Museum in Odaiba, Tokyo Bay, From Summer 2018

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Mori Building will partner with teamLab to open the Mori Building Digital Art Museum: teamLab Borderless this summer at Palette Town in Odaiba, Tokyo Bay.
Set to become one of the major attractions in Tokyo, details regarding opening times and ticket prices are yet to be released, ...

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Cornucopia of Crackers

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Small pieces of red, green and yellow rice cakes are dried at a workshop in Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture, before they are made into arare rice crackers.
The drying of the Noto Shika arare crackers — a local specialty — is well under way in Shika. The rice cakes need to be dried for...

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Campaigning Starts for Nago Mayoral Race; U.S. Base Issue in Focus

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JAPAN TODAY
 
NAHA - Official campaigning started Sunday for the Feb 4 mayoral election in the southern Japan city of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, a closely watch contest as it comes as the central government is pressing ahead with a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. base to the city.
The elec...

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New F-35A Fighter Jet Gets 1st Deployment

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
MISAWA, Aomori (Jiji Press) — The first F-35A stealth fighter jet for the Air Self-Defense Force was deployed to its Misawa base in Aomori Prefecture on Friday.
Nine more units will arrive at the base by the end of March next year, to form a squadron of cutting-edge stealth jets ...

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Street Fighter’s Sagat Named Ambassador of Saga City, Limited Edition SFII Goods To Be Sold

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ROCKET NEWS
 
For the next few months, Saga will be teaming up with Sagat and the rest of the Street Fighter II crew.
Saga Prefecture is no stranger to teaming up with video games such as Pokémon and Splatoon in the past with aggressive tourism campaigns. You might even say they have a fighter’s ...

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Conveyor-belt Chocolate and Sweets at Ginza Loft

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
We all know conveyor-belt sushi (kaiten-zushi). But what about conveyor-belt sweets?
For a limited time only, that experiment is coming to Tokyo — and just in time for Valentine’s Day, too.
Head to the Ginza branch of Loft, where the Sweety Loft pop-up will appear along with specia...

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Freezing Tokyo Sees Most Ambulance Calls for 80 Years

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Tokyo's ambulance service has experienced its busiest day in more than 80 years, officials said Thursday, amid icy conditions as the Japanese capital shivers through its coldest temperatures in decades.
The Tokyo fire department, which runs the ambulance service, said it had...

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Abe to Attend Olympics; Talks Planned

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday he intends to attend the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which will be held in South Korea from Feb. 9.
Abe plans to hold talks with South Korean President Moon Jae In during his visit to the country, conveying Tokyo’s...

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Omoshiroi Block Japanese Landmark Memo Pads Go Viral in Japan

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
The Japanese know a thing or two about making good stationery and papercrafts. They also know a thing or two about making nice landmarks.
The Omoshiroi Block (roughly translating as the “Interesting” or “Fun” Block) is what happens when you combine those two skills. As you use thes...

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Sakura Yoghurt from Danone Japan is Filled with Real Cherry Blossom Leaves

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ROCKET NEWS
 
The taste of sakura can now be found in dairy sections across the country.
Danone Japan has been blending sakura with their Bio range of fermented milk products in seasonal releases for several years now but it’s only this year that we finally managed to get our hands on a four-pack...

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