THE JAPAN NEWS
 
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Kumamoto Prefecture mascot Kumamon is surrounded by children, who happily touch the popular character, at Choyo Nursery School in the village of Minami-Aso in the prefecture on Friday morning.
Until Wednesday, Kumamon had refrained from appearing in public sin...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Last week we wrote about Rakuten’s new drone delivery service for golf courses. And now comes another great example of how people in Japan are showing us what drones can do. Hopefully the government is also watching and learning that drones are exciting new tools that can be exploi...

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Bandai is bringing some cuteness to Japanese tea time with these adorable characters from the popular manga and anime series Doraemon.
As the world’s fourth largest producer of toys, Japanese toy making and video game company Bandai is best known for its huge variety of anime and ma...

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Who says experiencing real love is a perquisite for answering all of love’s tough questions?
Communications company NTT Resonant has revealed that, beginning this August, it will be turning to artificial intelligence to help handle love advice queries on Oshiete! goo, a feature of t...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
We’ve been closely following the development of consumer virtual reality in Japan. This year alone we have already seen a great crossover of digital and analog technology with the Mask of Anubis VR board game and Namco Bandai has just opened its own VR game center, VR Zone Project ...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
The Yomiuri Shimbun
MASHIKI, Kumamoto — Four sixth-grade primary school girls in quake-hit Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, have started publishing a handmade newspaper featuring topics related to life in evacuation shelters.
Decorated with illustrations of animals, the inaugural is...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Kyodo
BEIJING – The foreign ministers of Japan and China agreed Saturday to step up efforts to accelerate the pace of improvement in political relations between Asia’s two biggest economies.
The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, which announced the agreement, said Fumio Kishida and his Chi...

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Bandai and Tamashii Nations have outdone themselves again with the latest addition to their samurai series of pop culture figurines.
 
Following up on their Movie Realisation series, which last year transformed a number of well-known Star Wars characters into awesome samurai warrior...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Cooking expert Hitomi Tsutsumi urges those living alone to make sure to have breakfast, based on her own difficult experience. Tsutsumi herself started to live alone in her 20s but later suffered health problems because she was extremely busy at the time and d...

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These wide-eyed kitties will watch you with every step while you enjoy the comfort of padded soles.
From marshmallows to Band-aids, cat-loving retailer Felissimo has all the cute kitty products we could ever ask for. Now they’ve found a way for us to get a feel for the world of feli...

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