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Top 50 Craziest Drinks Sold in Japan
There are almost 2.5 million drink vending machines in Japan. While many sell the mainstream brands like Coke, you can find a staggering array of options. Noted Japanese soft drink expert Ryoko Shimizu has ranked her all time Top 50.
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Robot built for Japan's aging workforce finds coronavirus role
Mira Robotics developed its "ugo" robot to reinforce greying Japan's shrinking workforce, but as the coronavirus threat persists, the Japanese startup is offering its machine as a tool in the fight against the outbreak, the company's CEO said.
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Japan’s Museum of Rocks With Faces
If you’re ever in Japan, consider a trip to Chineskikan, located two hours outside Tokyo in the city of Chichibu. The peculiar museum is the only one of its kind, dedicated entirely to rocks that look like human faces. Owned and operated by Yoshiko Hayama, Chineskikan is home to some of the most spectacular stones nature has to offer, with rocks that resemble everyone from Elvis Presley to E.T. Following in her father’s footsteps, Hayama is preserving the legacy of “jinmenseki,” continuing the search for rocks that resemble human faces.
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Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property
Cultural norms, complex religious influences and friendly police officers make losing something no big deal. But does this tell the whole story about Japan’s relationship with honesty?
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Why so many Japanese children refuse to go to school
Can free schools solve the problem of "futoko", Japan's phenomenon of refusing to attend school?
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First national estimates of virginity in Japan: 1 in 10 adults in their 30s remains a virgin
Japan has an increasing percentage of young adults with no history of heterosexual vaginal intercourse. Public health experts at the University of Tokyo completed the most detailed analysis of national fertility survey data to date to understand trends in sexual experience over the past three decades. "Previous news reports about virginity rates among Japanese young adults were a bit sensationalist, only included never-married individuals, and did not distinguish virginity rates by age group," said Dr. Peter Ueda, an expert in epidemiology and public health and leader of the research project.
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Japan's Biggest Railway Plans to Accept Cryptocurrency Payments
Japan Railways Group, the biggest railway and subway operator in Japan that is used by millions of Japanese individuals on a daily basis, is considering the integration of crypto assets like bitcoin as a payment option. According to ANN News, a mainstream commercial television news network in Japan run by TV Asahi Corporation, JR Group is currently planning to establish a cryptocurrency company, possibly an exchange in partnership with a major bank, to integrate cryptocurrencies.
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Is Japan losing its umami?
Soy sauce is one of the most important ingredients in Japanese cooking, but chances are you've never tasted the real thing.
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Japan Is Giving Away 8 Million Abandoned Houses — Here's How to Get One (Video)
Wannabe homeowners in Japan are about to get the deal of a lifetime. The Japanese government is launching a program to reduce the number of abandoned homes across the country by offering them for sale for nearly nothing, or actually nothing, according to Insider. According to a 2013 report, there are about eight million houses that have been left abandoned all over Japan.
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Made-to-order KitKat store opens in Japan
Nestle opens a made-to-order chocolate shop called KitKat Chocolatory in Osaka, Japan.
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Municipalities try new ways to help Japan's recluses find their place in society
Municipalities across Japan are reaching out to the social recluses known as hikikomori to help them find their place in society without focusing solely on getting them back into the workforce. Japan has some 540,000 people aged 15 to 39 who, aside from taking care of small chores, cut themselves off from the outside world for six months or longer at a time, according to a 2016 government estimate.
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Why Japanese whisky is so good and so hard to find
One of Japan’s leading whisky bloggers discusses the shortage of good Japanese single malts, the state of the country’s whisky industry, and how to order a highball.
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Pictures Reveal the Isolated Lives of Japan’s Social Recluses
In Japan, observes photographer Maika Elan, “there are always two sides that oppose one another. It is both modern and traditional, bustling and very lonely. Restaurants and bars are always full, but if you pay close attention, most are packed with customers eating alone. And in the streets, no matter the hour, you find exhausted office employees.”
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The Healing Power of Baseball in Japan
America's national pastime is the most popular sport in Japan, but it's also more than that.
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Japanese couple apologise for ignoring work pregnancy timetable by conceiving ‘before their turn’
A Japanese worker has been reprimanded by her boss for “selfishly breaking the rules” after she became pregnant before it was her “turn”, according to media reports. The woman was working at a private childcare centre in Aichi prefecture, north Japan, when she found out she was pregnant.
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Seven years after tsunami, Japanese live uneasily with seawalls
When a massive earthquake struck in 2011, Japanese oyster fisherman Atsushi Fujita was working as usual by the sea. Soon after, a huge black wave slammed into his city and killed nearly 2,000 people.
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Crime Plunges to Postwar Record Low in Japan
Crime in Japan is dropping amid the longest economic expansion in almost three decades, making one of the safest nations even safer. The number of recorded crimes fell to 915,042 last year, the lowest level in the postwar era, according to data released by the National Police Agency earlier this month. That came as the nation’s economy had its longest run of sustained growth in almost 30 years, which drove the unemployment rate down to 2.8 percent.
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Japanese consumers increasingly face stealth price hikes via 'shrinkflation'
In Japan, a phenomenon known as “shrinkflation” — an important economic countermeasure against inflation for businesses — has been catching the attention of consumers. The term, coined by American economist Pippa Malmgren, describes what happens when manufacturers have to contend with higher costs but don’t want to increase the prices of their products. What they do instead is decrease the size or amount of the product while maintaining a steady price.
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He lay dead in his apartment for four months. This is the Japanese crew that took the call.
So many Japanese people die alone, there's a whole industry devoted to cleaning up after them.
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Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early
Management on the Tsukuba Express line between Tokyo and the city of Tsukuba say they "sincerely apologise for the inconvenience" caused.
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