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Indonesian Embassy in Japan held The 69th Indonesian Independence Day in the office park in Tokyo. Japan former prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda was present in the ceremony.
Fukuda who known as a great person in Japan political was presenting to the ceremony using Batik sh...

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TOKYO, Japan — If you’re wary of chicken and beef products after a major meat supply scandal in Asia, the McDonald’s in Japan could have an alternative for you — tofu and fish nuggets.
 
On Wednesday, McDonald’s in Japan rolled out Tofu Shinjo McNuggets, a doppelganger of the Chicken McNugget mad...

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A new survey by Japan’s health ministry shows that Japan’s younger people are overworked and more exhausted than their elders. Here are the highlights in three charts:
 
1. Young adults are unhappier than older people.
Japanese between the ages of 20 and 39 rated their happiness at 6.03 out of 10...

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Japanese people seem to keep living longer and longer, with a boy born last year now expected to live more than eight decades, according to the latest government data.
 
Figures on life expectancies released Thursday by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare show that a boy born in 2013 will l...

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Trains were packed, flights full and highways congested on Sunday afternoon as the Obon holiday return rush peaked in Japan.
 
Narita and Haneda airport officials reported that almost all inbound flights were full, with around 65,000 travelers expected to return by the end of the day, Fuji TV rep...

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Japanese kengeki (swordplay dramas) may change forever after this film. That’s how impressive the innovative action scenes are in “Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen” (Rurouni Kenshin Kyoto Inferno).
The film is a sequel to “Rurouni Kenshin,” and both films are based on the Nobuhiro Watsuki manga o...

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Powerful Typhoon No. 11 had diminished to a tropical depression above the west coast of Hokkaido as of 9 a.m. Monday. However, it brought record rainfall and flooded many rivers on Shikoku island and the southern part of the Kinki region on Sunday before traveling to the north above the Sea of Ja...

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With six years to go before Tokyo hosts the 2020 Olympics, the government has fired the starting pistol on efforts to boost global cooperation in sports.
They include the launch on July 26 of the Tsukuba International Academy for Sport Studies, which aims to become an international center for the...

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Do you see the multitude of vending machines everywhere? Notice there are no red buttons in Summer because all the drinks inside are cold. You can use your suica pre-paid train card to buy your cool drink on the platform and it is not against protocol to drink it down before you board the train. ...

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JR Tokai, a railway operator in central Japan, is scheduled to begin construction this autumn on the Linear Chuo Shinkansen line. The line's magnetically levitated, or maglev, trains will be the fastest in the world, running at up to 500kph.
The train reaches speeds more common to airplanes by us...

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