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Feeling Cold and Blue? Warm Your Body and Soul with a Cup of Bright Blue Tea from Japan!

  • Category:Gourmet
ROCKET NEWS
 
Herbal ingredient provides dazzling natural color.
One of the peculiar points of the Japanese language is that the word aoi, while most commonly meaning “blue,” can also mean “green.” For example, verdant forests and the traffic lights indicating “go” are both aoi.
However, the hue ...

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Designer Bar The Bank Reopens in Prewar Kamakura Bank Branch with Wonderwall Interior

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Masamichi Katayama’s Wonderwall has helped reopen the designer bar The Bank in the city of Kamakura, west of Tokyo. With interior design by Wonderwall, it has been restored to the way it was when it was run by the late art director Kaoru Watanabe.
 
The original venue opened in 200...

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Koike says Tsukiji fish market will not be relocated for at least 1 year

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO — The controversial relocation of Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market will not take place for at least one year due to pending safety checks at the replacement site, even if the metropolitan government decides to go ahead with the move, Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike said Friday.
The relocati...

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Abe Departs for Talks with Trump

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left Tokyo on Thursday on a weeklong trip to the United States, Peru and Argentina, during which he will hold talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for the first time.
At the meeting with Trump in New York on Thursday evening,...

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Special Events to Highlight Nerima Daikon

  • Category:Event
THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Special restaurant dishes and harvest events celebrating Nerima daikon, a long white Japanese radish cultivated in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, are planned from the end of this month to mid-December, the harvest season for the radish.
Efforts are being made to promote the radish as a loca...

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After Conquering Box Office, Your Name is Ready to Star at Christmas with Beautiful Anime Cake

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Champagne-like sparkling beverages also honor director Makoto Shinkai’s latest anime film.
In Japan, the traditional Christmas Eve meal isn’t over until you’ve had a slice of Christmas cake. Most people choose an orthodox strawberry shortcake to cap their celebration, since the red ...

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Icebreaker Shirase Leaves For Antarctica

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Maritime Self-Defense Force icebreaker Shirase left Tokyo’s Harumi pier for Showa Station, Japan’s Antarctic research facility, on Friday morning.
About 80 crew members, including wintering party members of the 58th Antarctic research expedition team, wil...

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Abe, Modi Ride Shinkansen Train

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his visiting Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, traveled on a Shinkansen bullet train together from Tokyo to the western Japan city of Kobe on Saturday.
India has already decided to adopt the Shinkansen system for the high-speed ...

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Japan Races to Become The Robot Capital of The World

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Japan may have a long way to go before it can build a fully functional Gundam or Doraemon, but it’s getting closer to bringing sci-fi-style robotic helpers and protectors into our daily lives. Japan Robot Week, which took place at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center from Oct. 19 t...

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Koban Police Boxes Going Multilingual Ahead of 2020 Games

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the National Police Agency has been allocating foreign-speaking police officers for around-the-clock help at koban police boxes at tourist sites or in downtown areas busy with foreign tourists.
The police officers have been or wil...

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