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Kyoto's geisha prepare for New Year
Geisha in Kyoto's Gion district begin their traditional New Year's rituals.
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Year-end cleaning at temple near Narita airport
Buddhist monks clean up Naritasan Shinshoji Temple for the annual year-end cleaning.
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3 nabbed for smuggling 600 kg of stimulants
Police arrest 3 men in southwestern Japan for trying to smuggle 600 kilograms of stimulant drugs by boat.
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Stepping up accessibility for Parlympics
Within less than eight months to go until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, groups and individuals are trying to ...
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9-year-old math whiz passes top level exam
A 9-year-old boy in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture becomes the youngest person in Japan to pass a graduate school-level m...
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Post-WWII Soviet concentration camps
Tamotsu Hosokawa tells his story of surviving harrowing conditions in Soviet detention camps for more than two years fol...
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Takeda Castle floating in the sky
The ruins of Takeda Castle in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, appear to float in the sky due to a natural phenomenon.
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17-year-old accused of buying and selling uranium
Tokyo police investigate a 17-year-old high school student for buying and selling uranium online and refer the case to p...
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Touchless train travel in the works
JR East is developing a system that enables passengers to pass through ticket gates without the hassle of taking out or ...
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Japanese chemist Yoshino gives Nobel lecture
Japanese Nobel laureate Akira Yoshino gives a lecture on lithium-ion batteries in Stockholm.
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