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Shiseido Develops App That Determines Smile Quality
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JAPAN TRENDS
Shiseido has developed an app that determines the quality of a smile.
Shiseido is testing the software on 5,000 JAL flight attendants between July and September. The level of the female attendants’ smiles will be judged by the app on a tablet device, deciding if their smiles are to...
Shiseido has developed an app that determines the quality of a smile.
Shiseido is testing the software on 5,000 JAL flight attendants between July and September. The level of the female attendants’ smiles will be judged by the app on a tablet device, deciding if their smiles are to...
- June 25, 2016
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A Hoodie With a Pouch For Holding Cats Summer Edition
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ROCKET NEWS
Keep your kitty close, cool, and comfy with this cat-pouch hoodie that makes room for ice packs!
From the makers of the sweatshirt with a built-in pouch for cats comes the “Summer Mewgaroo Hoodie” hitting stores on June 22 – you guessed it – just in time for summer.
The Summer Mewga...
Keep your kitty close, cool, and comfy with this cat-pouch hoodie that makes room for ice packs!
From the makers of the sweatshirt with a built-in pouch for cats comes the “Summer Mewgaroo Hoodie” hitting stores on June 22 – you guessed it – just in time for summer.
The Summer Mewga...
- June 25, 2016
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Luxury Tourist Concierge Services Growing in Tokyo
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JAPAN TRENDS
Everything seems to be about tourism these days — and how to cash in on the boom.
This has led to foreign-language-speaking staff and tax-free counters at major stores in Tokyo. We reported yesterday how a Shibuya fashion store has even made its own version of the famous Hachiko st...
Everything seems to be about tourism these days — and how to cash in on the boom.
This has led to foreign-language-speaking staff and tax-free counters at major stores in Tokyo. We reported yesterday how a Shibuya fashion store has even made its own version of the famous Hachiko st...
- June 24, 2016
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Sightseeing Center For Foreign Tourists to Open in Shinjuku Station
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THE JAPAN NEWS
Keio Corp. and its group companies will open an information center and travel-related facilities for the rapidly increasing number of foreign tourists at an underground mall in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station in July.
The group hopes to enhance the options available to such tourists by ...
Keio Corp. and its group companies will open an information center and travel-related facilities for the rapidly increasing number of foreign tourists at an underground mall in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station in July.
The group hopes to enhance the options available to such tourists by ...
- June 23, 2016
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Wise Owl Hostels Tokyo Opens July with Eurasian Eagle-owl
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JAPAN TRENDS
Animal cafes continue to develop in Japan. Not content with just cat cafes of all varieties, there are also cafes with rabbits and hedgehogs.
One of the most popular types of animal cafe is the owl cafe, and this genre has even now spawned an accommodation spin-off.
Wise Owl Hostel...
Animal cafes continue to develop in Japan. Not content with just cat cafes of all varieties, there are also cafes with rabbits and hedgehogs.
One of the most popular types of animal cafe is the owl cafe, and this genre has even now spawned an accommodation spin-off.
Wise Owl Hostel...
- June 23, 2016
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Traditional Japanese Holiday Gets Boost With An Injection of Cold Hard Cash
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ROCKET NEWS
A lesser-known Yamagata Prefecture custom may just be what Obon needs to stave off invasive species of the holiday kingdom like Halloween, Christmas, and Easter.
Foreign holidays are fast encroaching on the Japanese landscape.
Valentine’s Day and Christmas are pretty firmly entrench...
A lesser-known Yamagata Prefecture custom may just be what Obon needs to stave off invasive species of the holiday kingdom like Halloween, Christmas, and Easter.
Foreign holidays are fast encroaching on the Japanese landscape.
Valentine’s Day and Christmas are pretty firmly entrench...
- June 23, 2016
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Shibuya Store Cashes In On Tourist Boom with New Hachiko Dog Landmark
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JAPAN TRENDS
After already breaking records for inbound tourism last year, the government hopes to double the number to 40 million by 2020.
So far this year, more than 10 million non-Japanese visitors have entered the country, indicating the government is on track to hit 20 million or more for ...
After already breaking records for inbound tourism last year, the government hopes to double the number to 40 million by 2020.
So far this year, more than 10 million non-Japanese visitors have entered the country, indicating the government is on track to hit 20 million or more for ...
- June 21, 2016
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Gov't Challenges Okinawa to Sue After Panel Fails to Back Governor
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — The government on Monday challenged Okinawa Prefecture to file a lawsuit after a dispute resolution panel last week refrained from siding with Gov Takeshi Onaga in his attempt to block the transfer of a key U.S. base.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga made the call afte...
TOKYO — The government on Monday challenged Okinawa Prefecture to file a lawsuit after a dispute resolution panel last week refrained from siding with Gov Takeshi Onaga in his attempt to block the transfer of a key U.S. base.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga made the call afte...
- June 21, 2016
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Summer Sweetness Arrives at Krispy Kreme Japan as Colorful Watermelon And Lemon Shaped Doughnuts!
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ROCKET NEWS
The new summer offerings from Krispy Kreme Japan are not only mouth-watering, but also eye-popping as well!
Yes, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts have always delighted us with beautiful, tasty-looking seasonal offerings, and this summer is no exception.
This year, their summer doughnuts are l...
The new summer offerings from Krispy Kreme Japan are not only mouth-watering, but also eye-popping as well!
Yes, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts have always delighted us with beautiful, tasty-looking seasonal offerings, and this summer is no exception.
This year, their summer doughnuts are l...
- June 21, 2016
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Self-drip Pop-up Coffee Shop Minedrip Coffee Opens on Shinjuku NEWoMAN Rooftop
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JAPAN TRENDS
The third-wave coffee boom in Japan continues with Minedrip Coffee, which has opened on the rooftop of Shinjuku Lumine NEWoMAN.
NEWoMAN, which itself only opened in March, already has an insanely popular branch of Blue Bottle on its ground floor (go check out the crowds of people a...
The third-wave coffee boom in Japan continues with Minedrip Coffee, which has opened on the rooftop of Shinjuku Lumine NEWoMAN.
NEWoMAN, which itself only opened in March, already has an insanely popular branch of Blue Bottle on its ground floor (go check out the crowds of people a...
- June 17, 2016
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