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9 Tips for Living with a Japanese Host Family

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Go Overseas
Spending time with a homestay family is one of the best cultural immersion experiences you can have while traveling in Japan. Whether you're studying abroad for a semester, or exploring Japan for a few weeks, be sure to take a weekend and live with a Japanese family.
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10 Phrases to Know For Students who Study Abroad in Japan

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So you're heading on studying abroad in Japan Obviously, learning a few new Japanese phrases is a great way to prepare for your time in Japanese high school. While your newly purchased phrasebook or Japanese lessons back home may teach you the basics, there's a lot of cultural...

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The Most Expensive Japanese Resturant in Jakarta

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Merdeka
A new Japanese restaurant is opened in Indonesia. With the concept of authentic Japanese food that opened in Cikini Raya, Jakarta, named Kokoro. At this restaurant, not only the food that you will get, but you will also feel the 'hospitality (omotenashi)' which is the true essence of the ...

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Zunda Saryo

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JAPAN TRAVEL
Sendai's Specialty In Tasty Treats to Anyone Sendai has three main food specialties (which are mostly shared with the rest of Miyagi): sasakamaboko, gyutan and zunda. Zunda is a sweet paste made of edamame (immature soy beans). It's often used to cover mochi (rice cakes filled with a...

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Shirakawa-go, the beautiful place that you must visit in Japan.

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JAPANESE STATION
 
The next stopover places visited by the team of Japanese Station is to the village of Shirakawa-go Ogimachi. Shirakawa-go itself is one of the locations into the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995 and is known as a traditional village with houses typical of Gassho-zu...

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Sapporo Snow Festival to be held Feb 5-11

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JAPAN TODAY
 
The 66th Sapporo Snow Festival begins on Thursday. The annual festival, which will feature around 200 ice and snow sculptures in Odori Park, the grounds of Community Dome Tsudome and the main street in Susukino, will run until Feb 11.
 
Festival organizers said they expect 2 million...

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Japanese netizens proud to see Tokyo named safest city in the world, Osaka number three

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NEWS ON JAPAN
 
Japan had plenty to boast last week when Tokyo was named as the safest city in the world by The Economist, with Osaka coming in a respectable third.
 
Netizens were proud that even with Tokyo's famously terrible (and sometimes dangerous) commutes and Osaka's penchant for strange c...

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Fish-shaped Japanese sweets: The most appetizing way to swallow a goldfish

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Whoa, hold on a second here! It’s a well-known fact that the Japanese diet includes lots of fish. The country also has an undeniable sweet tooth, with legions of gourmets constantly searching for the next trendy dessert.
 
Could this photograph actually be fish gelatin, though?
 
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One Piece themed amusement park due to open in Tokyo this March

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Anime and manga fans will soon have even more reason to visit the country that offers the opportunity to eat Pikachu-themed meals at the Pokémon restaurant or gaze up in awe at an 18-foot tall giant Gundam. The long-awaited world’s first One Piece amusement park will be arriving on ...

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Annual foreign visitors surpass 13 million

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The number of foreign visitors to Japan this year has exceeded 13 million for the first time ever, the transport and tourism ministry said Monday.
 
The number has shot up nearly 30 percent from the year-before level chiefly thanks to the yen’s weakening against other currencies.
 
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