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  Tokyo Zoo Bids Farewell to Giant Panda Xiang Xiang

  Xiang Xiang, a 5-year-old giant panda born and raised at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoological Gardens, left Japan...

  February 21, 2023

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  Fans Bid Farewell as Ueno Zoo’s Beloved Giant Panda Xiang Xiang Heads ‘Home’ to China

  As the day grows closer when she will go back to her motherland, hordes of fans come daily to bid a ...

  February 17, 2023

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  Japan In Focus

  Tokyo: Button Museum Shows Off Array of Uniquely Made Accessories

  Simply changing your buttons can convey a new feeling to an outfit. Playing a supporting role in the...

  February 8, 2023

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  Plastic Bottle Dinosaur Skeleton Makes Debut in Shinjuku

  A giant model of a dinosaur skeleton made from about 20,000 empty plastic bottles went on display Fr...

  January 28, 2023

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  Japan In Focus

  Tokyo: Showa-era Toys Offer Nostalgic Play at Tokyo Museum

  Just a one-minute walk from Shibamata Station in Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward, the Shibamata no Omocha Ha...

  January 25, 2023

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  Tokyo: Suntory Brewery, Where Premium Beer Is Born

  Visitors to the Suntory Tokyo-Musashino Brewery in Fuchu, Tokyo, can deepen their understanding of t...

  January 18, 2023

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  Tokyo Shrine Prepares for Bullfinch Figurine Rite

  Staff at a Tokyo shrine are busy preparing wooden figurines of Eurasian bullfinches ahead of its ann...

  January 16, 2023

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  Japan In Focus

  Exhibition brings Osamu Dazai’s works to life

  The home workplace of novelist Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) has been recreated in Mitaka, Tokyo, where he...

  January 11, 2023

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  Japan In Focus

  Keio founder Fukuzawa’s perspective on display

  Last year marked 150 years since the founder of Keio University Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) publish...

  January 5, 2023

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  Tokyo’s Yushima Tenjin shrine prepares votive tablets for Year of the Rabbit

  Shrine maidens at Yushima Tenjin shrine prepare ema wooden votive tablets bearing hand-printed depic...

  December 28, 2022

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  Ginza: New Moomin shop opens

  Moomin Shop Ginza, which sells goods related to the popular characters created by Finnish author and...

  December 16, 2022

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  Tokyo: Tense exhibition of classified wartime documents

  The Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Minato Ward, Tokyo, is home to about 1...

  December 14, 2022

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  Baby giant anteater born in Tokyo

  A baby giant anteater hugs its mother’s back at Edogawa Ward’s Shizen Zoo on Tuesday. The baby was b...

  December 10, 2022

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  Gundam flags, posters celebrate abundance of animation studios in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward

  Flags and posters for the Gundam series of TV anime are on display around Ogikubo Station in Suginam...

  December 10, 2022

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  ‘Blue Grotto’ illumination event returns to Shibuya

  People walk down a tree-lined street illuminated by about 600,000 blue LEDs during an event in Shibu...

  December 9, 2022

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