Society
Social Series
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Amazing Nippon / Japan-Made Whisky, Wine Beloved by Foreign Tourists
This is the fourth installment of a series exploring places that attract overseas visitors, allowing...
August 8, 2023
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Amazing Nippon / Fun and Games: Claw Machine, Capsule Toy Arcades Prove Hit with Overseas Visitors
Excitement bubbled among a group of overseas visitors as they tried to snare a claw-machine prize at...
August 7, 2023
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Amazing Nippon / Tourists to Japan Enjoy Bento Making Classes, Cookware
At Kawaii Cooking, a cooking class aimed at foreigners, Jonathon Pentecost, 47, and his family, made...
August 6, 2023
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Amazing Nippon / Digital Art Museum in Tokyo Enchants Overseas Tourists
Foreign tourists have started returning to Japan following the easing of COVID-19-related travel res...
August 5, 2023
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1 Year Since Abe Shooting / Abe’s Death Left LDP Without Figure to Unite Party Conservatives
One year has passed since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot to death while giving a campaign...
July 11, 2023
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1 Year Since Abe Shooting / Japan Weighs How Best to Protect Dignitaries Against ‘Lone-wolf’ Attacks
One year has passed since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot to death while giving a campaign...
July 11, 2023
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1 Year Since Abe Shooting / Suspect Lionized on Fringes of Society
One year has passed since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot to death while giving a campaign...
July 8, 2023
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Emperor in Reiwa Era — 1st Goodwill Visit / Japan Emperor Strives to Encourage Young Indonesians
The Emperor on Thursday emphasized the importance of “exchanges among the younger generation” ahead ...
June 18, 2023
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Emperor in Reiwa Era — 1st Goodwill Visit / Emperor’s Knowledge of Water Key to International Amity
The upcoming visit of the Emperor and Empress to Indonesia marks the start of international goodwill...
June 16, 2023
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Emperor in Reiwa Era – 1st Goodwill Visit / Emperor Plans to Meet Descendants of Former Japanese Soldiers in Indonesia
The Kalibata Hero Cemetery in Jakarta is lined with gravestones inscribed with the names of the war ...
June 15, 2023
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Classroom Crisis / Students, Schools Strive to Spend Less Time Online
The Yomiuri ShimbunStudents read paperbacks in an “intensive reading” class in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Pr...
June 12, 2023
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Classroom Crisis / Japanese Students Compete on Drug Overdoses to Gain Approval of Peers
A third-year college student, 20, living in Tochigi Prefecture, had had good grades ever since eleme...
June 10, 2023
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Classroom Crisis / Digital Devices Provide Bullies with New Tools to Taunt Victims
It all came to a head in autumn last year when the boy was a third-year junior high school student. ...
June 9, 2023
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Classroom Crisis / AI Could Undermine Homework, Exam Question-setting
“Schoolteachers may become unnecessary,” opined a Chiba Prefecture public high school English teache...
June 8, 2023
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Classroom Crisis / Is Overuse of Devices Affecting Student Discipline?
One afternoon in January, as students at an elementary school in Chiba Prefecture tucked into pieces...
June 8, 2023
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