- Belgium comes to Yamashita Park
- Residential Villa in Phuket Entices Remote Workers With Long-Stay Rates
- Rare pieces of French glass art at the Mirai Museum of Art
- Feast on fresh fish and seafood at the 2024 ‘Sakana’ Festival
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- Naked Snow Aquarium
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All posts tagged "News"
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Japan experts: Vaccinations can reduce COVID-19 Infections this winter by 3 million
Japan experts estimate a speedy rollout of COVID-19 vaccines could prevent as many as 3 million infection cases even if Japan experiences an eighth wave this winter. The study was presented at the health ministry’s COVID-19 advisory...
- Posted October 27, 2022
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The USD/JPY exchange rate hits 150 yen mark
The US dollar goes past 150 yen level in Tokyo trading Thursday as the currency continues to slide. This is the Japanese yen’s lowest level since August 1990 as the U.S. currency rises by around 35 yen...
- Posted October 21, 2022
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Japan orders school bus operators to install emergency safety device in vehicles
The Japanese government Wednesday has put in place safety measures to prevent children from being left behind inside a school bus unnoticed. Last month, a 3-year-old girl died of heatstroke after being left behind on a school...
- Posted October 13, 2022
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5 Million led lamps light up Ashikaga Flower park from October 15
Don’t let Japan’s volatile temperature stop you from enjoying the outdoors as a family. Layer up and head out to Tochigi prefecture in autumn. Ranked no. 1 among Japan’s top three major illumination parks by tourists 6...
- Posted October 7, 2022
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Bond’s Aston Martin’s replica sold for nearly £3 million
A replica of an Aston Martin DB5 used for the stunts in James Bond blockbuster No Time to Die sold for nearly £3 million at auction on Wednesday, auction house Christie’s said. Proceeds from the sale, which...
- Posted September 30, 2022
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Japan opens borders to individual travelers from Oct 11
Japan will reopen its borders to individual travelers from Oct 11, Prime Minister Kishida has announced yesterday, putting an end to one of the world’s longest-running pandemic travel restrictions. As a result, the cap on daily arrivals...
- Posted September 23, 2022
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Japan approves vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants and original SARS-CoV-2
The Japanese health ministry gave its approval Monday for the use of improved COVID-19 vaccines that are expected to provide broader protection against the circulating different variants of SARS-CoV-2. The government is expected to begin administering the...
- Posted September 13, 2022
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Disney releases teaser of The Little Mermaid’s Live-Action Adaptation
The live-action adaptation of ‘The Little Mermaid’, starring Halle Bailey and directed by Rob Marshall was unveiled by Disney at the D23 Expo. The upcoming movie is slated to hit Japan theatres in early summer 2023 in...
- Posted September 13, 2022
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Nursery school bus operators urged to ensure child safety management
Following a recent incident in which a 3-year old girl died of heatstroke after being left on a school bus, the Japanese government will demand nurseries running school service buses, to review their safety measures and ensure...
- Posted September 11, 2022
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Lower death risks for people who eat many fruits, vegetables, says study
People who ate lots of fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins and fiber had slightly lower risks of death than those who did not eat them much, a team of researchers including those from Japan’s National Cancer...
- Posted September 8, 2022
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JR East Railways celebrates 150 years with unlimited train pass good for 3 days
Autumn is a good time to travel to places in Japan you have never visited. If you are put off by expensive train fares, next month is the time everyone gets a good deal. JR East is...
- Posted September 7, 2022
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E-kickscooter users return to the streets of Tokyo
We will start to see the return of electric kick-scooters around Japan. Thanks to the deregulation on the use of the two-wheeler in April, anyone aged 16 or above can freely enjoy a ride without a license...
- Posted September 5, 2022
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New image captured by Webb Telescope reveals new detail of the Phantom Galaxy
The James Webb space telescope has revealed dazzling new detail of a previously known slice of the cosmos 32 million light-years away, in a new picture released by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). The infrared...
- Posted September 4, 2022
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Twitter to begin testing its “Edit” button
Twitter said Thursday it has begun actively testing an edit button, after months of publicly discussing such a tweak. Edit Tweet testing will begin with internal employees, then be expanded out to the platform’s Twitter Blue subscription...
- Posted September 2, 2022
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Omicron vaccine rollout likely from September
Japan is discussing moving up the start date of rolling out Omicron vaccines from mid-October to September in response to the seventh COVID-19 wave. If the improved vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. receive regulatory...
- Posted August 31, 2022
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Dollar at 138.50 yen level on Tuesday afternoon
At 5 p.m. Tuesday, the Japanese yen has gone nearly 4% low this month and traded around the 138.50 level too close to a 24-year 140 yen level. Nouriel Roubini, Professor Emeritus of Economics at New York...
- Posted August 31, 2022
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This gallery sells a wide range of artworks to dress up boring walls.
White walls don’t need to be boring, especially if you fill them with your favorite artwork with a design element that creates a focal point in your space. However you choose to do this – one rule interior...
- Posted August 30, 2022
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Japan’s plastic food artists get creative
Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP From the “leaning tower of pizza” to a fish slicing and cooking itself and a dragon emerging from a dragon fruit, Japanese artisans’ quirky plastic food sculptures went on display this week at...
- Posted August 29, 2022
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British-Belgian teen is now the youngest round-the-world solo flier.
Mack Rutherford, a 17-year-old British-Belgian who took off from Bulgaria in March, returned to the small airport near the town of Radomir, an hour from the capital Sofia, to become the youngest person to fly solo around...
- Posted August 27, 2022
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Meta VR Headset Project Cambria with eye-tracking sensor revealed by Zuckerberg
“The next device coming in October has some cool features.” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a guest appearance on the August 25th episode of the popular podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Zuckerberg also said that his...
- Posted August 27, 2022
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Brace yourselves gamers: Sony is raising the price of PS5 amid global inflation
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced on August 25 it will be raising the suggested retail price of PlayStation 5 to take effect from September 15. In Japan, the revised price will be 60,478 yen for the Ultra...
- Posted August 26, 2022
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Japan schools to start using digital textbooks from 2024
Japan’s education ministry plans to move school children to digital textbooks from fiscal year 2024. The first to do so will be English classes for elementary grades 5 and 6, as well as junior high. Mathematics classes,...
- Posted August 26, 2022
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Did you suddenly get cut off in the middle of a phone conversation last night?
It’s not your fault. KDDI Corp. said a network disruption happened on Wednesday night, temporarily making it difficult to make voice calls in part for those in the East Japan service area. The network disruption was triggered...
- Posted August 25, 2022
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Japanese yen weakens against the US dollar
The dollar rose to levels above 137 yen in Tokyo trading Tuesday, backed by expectations of a wider Japan-U.S. interest rate gap. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at 137.27-28 yen, up from 136.84-84 yen at the...
- Posted August 24, 2022
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Japan’s Huis Ten Bosch ownership likely to change hands
The sale of Huis Ten Bosch, a Dutch-themed amusement park, located in Sasebo, outside Nagasaki Prefecture, currently owned by H.I.S. Co. and others, is in its final-stage of talks with likely buyer PAG, a Hong Kong investment...
- Posted August 23, 2022
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Universal Studios Japan to raise Day pass to 9800 yen
USJ LLC, the operator of Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, will raise the maximum price of a one-day Studio Pass from the current 9,400 yen to 9,800 yen in October. The price hike comes ahead of the...
- Posted August 17, 2022
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Fashion guru Issey Miyake passes away
World famous Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake died of liver cell cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Friday at the age of 84. The internationally acclaimed brand creator, whose real name was Kazunaru Miyake, was awarded the...
- Posted August 10, 2022
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Science experiments in Japanese schools reduced due to the pandemic
A government survey reveals the country’s Covid-19 response measures had imposed less science experiments and observations among children at Japanese schools. The percentage of elementary and junior high school children having such activity as part of the...
- Posted July 29, 2022
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The Tokyo Tower Climb returns. Will you step to the challenge?
After community fundraising activities were disrupted by the pandemic, TELL returns with the Tokyo Tower Climb in conjunction with the Step Up Challenge! In 2021, 856 participants took over 7 million steps to support suicide awareness and...
- Posted July 27, 2022
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Japan’s first monkeypox case reported
Late Monday evening, a couple of days after the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency, a man in Japan who traveled to a European country from late June to mid-July, tested positive for the...
- Posted July 26, 2022