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The warm spices in gingerbread, the woodsy aroma of pine and fir trees, and the ...
Music played in a wedding hall in western Japan as Yurina Noguchi, wearing a whi...
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For quite some time, the scarcity of trash cans has been among the top complaint...
The year the radio station company where he worked held its holiday party at a d...
As Japan’s foreign population continues to grow, the number of foreign-nationali...
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In April, Japan’s Oita Airport renamed itself to Oita Hello Kitty Airport. This ...
On the southwestern edge of Fukushima City, the rural district of Inomachi initi...
Having lived in fairly modern apartments in Japan with decent amounts of space f...
Turning on its lights for the first time on Nov. 1, Fukuoka City’s “Christmas Ma...
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When you picture Santa Claus, a white, bearded, overweight and jolly man who das...
