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Coca-Cola Japan Releases Milk Tea With Cherry and Sakura Blossom Flavours For Spring

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Find out what this limited-edition beverage tastes like after the break!
With spring officially less than two months away in Japan, people are getting ready to dust off their picnic hampers, bring out their tarpaulin mats and start scouring the shelves for sakura-themed items to bri...

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Piko Taro Returns With New Song, I Like Orange Juice!

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Piko Taro, the alter ego of comedian Daimao Kosaka, rocked Japan and the world with his indelibly catchy “Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen (PPAP)” video in 2016. Having inspired so many imitators and boosted his career exorbitantly with advertising contracts, Piko Taro is back with a follow...

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Japanese High Schooler Awarded by Police Chief for Cleaning up Litter on City Street on Her Own

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ROCKET NEWS
 
She alone collected 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of garbage!
Last week, a young high school girl from Saitama Prefecture received a certificate of thanks from the chief of police for her efforts to clean up litter from a portion of prefectural highway in her town.
On the evening of Dece...

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‘K’ Computer to Predict Torrential Rain

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
A project team including the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) and other institutions has succeeded in developing the basic technology to predict the coming of disastrous torrential rain in specific areas a...

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Awesomely Adorable Pikachu Cup Clinger Figures Add Some Poké-appeal To Your Beverages

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Six new designs offered showing the Pokémon star in moods ranging from fired up to love-struck.
During the holiday season, I took a trip back to my home town to visit friends and family, which really proved the truth of the old adage “The more the merrier.” Almost every day was an o...

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Shimizu Eyes Karate’s Debut at 2020 Tokyo Games

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
With karate added to the Olympic program for the 2020 Tokyo Games, world champion Kiyo Shimizu watched the Rio de Janeiro Olympics with a different perspective than usual.
“As I was watching, I was asking myself what would I be feeling if I were on the Olympic stage. I thought, d...

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Green Tea Cup Noodle Brings Matcha To The Wonderful World of Instant Ramen

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Ramen and green tea are two of the best things to make if you’ve got a pot of hot water, and now you can have both at once.
After the amazingly thorough Cup Noodles/Final Fantasy XV cross-promotion, you’d think the creative minds at Nissin, maker of Japan’s most popular brand of ins...

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Mangaka Spreads His Wings from Forerunner’s Home

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
A young manga creator has published his first book while honing his skills in an apartment that used to house the studio of mangaka Fujio Akatsuka (1935-2008).
Gaku Kajikawa, 25, is the first resident to have a book published among the budding mangaka who have lived in the Shiuns...

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Richie Hawtin: Pairing Japan’s Best Sake With Techno

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Richie Hawtin needs no introduction to anyone familiar with electronic music. For 25 years, this Berlin-based, English-Canadian DJ has been at the forefront of techno and he continues to play at major music and art events around the planet.
Less well known is his passion for premium...

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Carmakers Include Life-saving Features to Protect Pedestrians

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Automakers are improving car functions that protect pedestrians as a result of government safety evaluations aimed at protecting people outside of cars as well as inside them. The government aims to reduce fatal car accidents.
Such functions could become a key factor when people ...

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