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Promotional tie-in for upcoming film Bin Laden is My Prey has aninspired flavor choice.
There was a time when endorsements from Hollywood celebrities were everywhere in Japanese advertising. Some of the most surreal ads were the ones in which American cinematic A-listers hawked prod...

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TOKYO - For a long time some companies have chosen to check out job candidates’ social media pages in order to find out more about the people they are considering employing, leading some people to create two or more accounts, with one specially sanitised for prospective bosses, usin...

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Eminent dancer-choreographer Tetsuya Kumakawa has embarked on a new challenge with his K-Ballet Company, producing its first completely original work in the upcoming ballet “Cleopatra.”
This is the first work for the K-Ballet for which there was no pre-existing story or score. “C...

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Paramount Pictures thinks “blue mammal with one giant eyeball who runs really fast” is a fine foundation for a live-action movie.
I’m usually not one to exasperatedly sigh and declare that “Hollywood has officially run out of ideas” when a remake or adaptation gets announced. Movie-...

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TOKYO - The new political party led by Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike unveiled Tuesday its first batch of candidates for the Oct 22 lower house election, aiming to ultimately mount an attempt to take power from the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The Party of Hope named a...

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TOKYO - The ruling Liberal Democratic Party announced Monday its six-point campaign platform for the Oct 22 House of Representatives election, including a commitment to debate a revision to the Japanese Constitution.
Official campaigning for the election, in which the LDP will face ...

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The manga this week
Ichinichi Gaishutsuroku Hancho (Squad leader’s
one-day leave)
Story by Tensei Hagiwara, illustration by Motomu Uehara and Kazuya Arai, with the cooperation of Nobuyuki Fukumoto (Kodansha)
Manga spin-offs, in which a supporting character from a manga is upgrade...

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Matcha Opera ice cream promises to make sweets fans ready to sing with joy.
Häagen-Dazs has no qualms about infusing its ice cream with Japanese flavors, and we can thank that strategy for such wonders as the Matcha Green Tea Crumble and sesame walnut mochi ice cream cup.
Emboldened...

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As if we didn’t already feel bad enough from sending Yoshi plummeting into all those bottomless pits, Nintendo gives us yet another source ofvideo game grief.
I’ve never really been sold on the numerous fan theories that Nintendo’s Super Marioseries has all sorts of scandalous of se...

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TOKYO - Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike, who this week founded a new political party, said Friday she will be selective in allowing members of the moribund main opposition Democratic Party to stand as candidates with her party in next month's lower house election.
Koike and Democratic Party ...

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