Japanese group has opened a new reflexology salon designed to relieve customers of stress with the help of young women scantily clad in police uniforms.
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Rice and wheat consumption in Japan is flat and may decline as the country’s demographics change, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency.
He's baaaack!!!!!
Last week reports surfaced that Prada Japan allegedly terminated workers they found unattractive, after ex-senior retail manager Rina Bovrisse filed a complaint against the label. On Saturday, after failing to reach a settlement with Prada Japan, Bovrisse told the Japan Times she had planned to collect more witnesses and file a lawsuit. Prada just issued thi
Japan may lift work visa restrictions for foreign nurses and dentists, to help care for its fast-ageing and shrinking population, the government said Monday. The immigration bureau is considering a plan to abolish visa limits for hundreds of nurses from the Philippines and Indonesia that currently restrict them to working in Japan for only seven years.
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A 91-year-old woman has graduated from evening school in southern Japan, the daily Mainichi Simbun paper reported on Wednesday.
The Kobe evening school is for people who failed to receive a secondary education because of difficult circumstances.
"I had to sacrifice a lot and give up a lot," Sidzue Hirai said.
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At first glance, Yokote's Bondon Matsuri in Northern Japan may seem rather innocuous. Tall decorative pools are paraded through the streets where later they are taken up a mountain and offered to a Shrine for the sake of a good harvest.
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Walt Disney World in Florida may be the next stop for bullet-train makers in Japan and China.
More than 100 rotting pig carcasses discarded in the Qiantang River in China are threatening the health of 3 million locals, Chinese Global Times said on Monday.
Since last Wednesday, a salvage team has already removed 100 rotting pig corpses from the river, which provides drinking water for more than 3 million people living downstream.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has US$4 billion hidden in secret accounts in European banks to continue his lavish way of life if he is forced to flee the country, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Chinese woman Zhang Ruifang, aged 101, has become a star in her Linlou village, Henan province. The elderly woman grew a horn on her forehead, above her left eye a year ago. Now the woman grows another horn – above the right eye, Express Gazeta wrote.
Everything you need to know when you're in Roppongi, Tokyo.
Japanese-born giant panda "Xingbang" is seen in the quarantine room at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 16, 2010. Giant panda "Xingbang", which was born by "Meimei" on Aug. 23, 2005 in Japan, returned to China on Tuesday.
Human history and the future: as seen through the eyes of Karl Marx, father of communism - part 1
Or perhaps brothers, twins even? Took this shot on my way back to Shibuya from Harajuku.
TOKYO, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Tuesday denied that his government was considering relocating the U.S. Futenma air base from Okinawa to Tokunoshima island in Kagoshima Prefecture.
Railway passengers will be able to travel from King's Cross to Beijing in just two days on a journey that would be almost as fast as by airplane under ambitious new plans from the Chinese.
Photos and a movie from our recent trip to this most famous Japanese garden. It was snowing and there was a flute concert. Unforgettable.
They were dressed in street clothes and I realized that in three years I'd never seen them dressed so. Yuki looked the way I imagine Hello Kitty would look if she had a blue fairy like Pinocchio who turned her into a little girl. And, Midori had future Hostess written all over her outfit.
Korean food is unpopular and considered overpriced in the U.S., a survey shows. But it is widely popular in China and Japan, where it is seen as cheap.