- Rare pieces of French glass art at the Mirai Museum of Art
- Feast on fresh fish and seafood at the 2024 ‘Sakana’ Festival
- Would you like to ride in a Louis Vuitton gondola lift?
- Naked Snow Aquarium
- Festive lights at Yomiuriland will get you feeling the holiday vibes
- Yomiuriland holiday illumination
- Biota of the Imperial Palace
All posts tagged "News"
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Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron wins two Annie Awards
Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” presented with grand visuals and a complex story about a spoiled 10-year old boy growing up, won the Annie Awards for best character animation and best story...
- Posted February 19, 2024
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Public Daycare application to switch from paper to online
Parents in Japan still face daunting wait lists for public daycare. Some experience difficulty in taking time off work significantly impacting parents’ ability to meet daycare application deadlines. But that will change when Public Daycare application switches...
- Posted February 6, 2024
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Japan embraces digital option to report a child birth
Many countries across the world have rolled out digital registration to serve a wide range of functions and Japan is no different. Parents will breath a sigh of relief as Japan is set to make children’s birth...
- Posted January 31, 2024
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Survey: Ten-year cancer survival rate in 14 years old and below higher than adults
A survey by the National Cancer Center released yesterday found that cancer patients who are 14 years old or younger are 70-90 percent more likely to survive ten years than adults. In 360,000 patients including adults that...
- Posted January 25, 2024
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Hina doll exhibition has started.
After a four-year hiatus imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan’s traditional annual event – Japanese ‘hina’ dolls exhibition – returns at the Hotel Gajoen in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward. The event started on Saturday, January 20 and will...
- Posted January 23, 2024
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Sustainability-focused resort restaurant in Phuket retain Michelin red star for the sixth time
Montara Hospitality Group’s constellation of culinary stars is shining as brightly as ever following the MICHELIN Guide Thailand Revelation held in Bangkok in December. At the grand unveiling, which took place at the Capella Bangkok, PRU, the...
- Posted January 12, 2024
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Premium donuts by Mister Donuts and Godiva Available for a limited time
More recently, two food brands collaborating with each other to create an entirely new offering has become a trend. Charting a path forward, International Donut chain store Mister Donuts and European Chocolatier Godiva team up to offer...
- Posted January 5, 2024
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Year 2023 average temperature, Japan’s warmest year on record
Though warming has not been the same for countries around the world, the upward trend in Japan’s average temperature shows that year 2023’s average temperature was at its highest since record tracking began in 1898. The average,...
- Posted January 5, 2024
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A fairy tale comes true for Crown Princess Mary
Australian-born Crown Princess Mary of Denmark is set to become queen on January 14 when her husband Crown Prince Frederik accedes to the throne after her mother abdicates. Mary Donaldson was an advertising executive when she met...
- Posted January 4, 2024
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Space Mountain roller coaster ride is getting a makeover
A clear crowd favorite since 1983, the aging Space Mountain attraction at Tomorrowland will be closing for a major makeover to start in 2024. This means Space Mountain ride will be offered only until 2024 July and...
- Posted December 20, 2023
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Look: A new family roller coaster opens at Super Nintendo World next year
Mine-Cart Madness™, the first-of-its-kind family roller coaster and part of SUPER NINTENDO WORLD™ expansion at Universal Studios Japan, will be open to the public in the spring of 2024 . As families ride Mine-Cart Madness™, they will...
- Posted December 7, 2023
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Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi is transforming into a winter wonderland with a spectacle of lights this Christmas season.
Drawing inspiration from Tchaikovsky’s enchanting “Waltz of the Flowers” from The Nutcracker, this year’s festive theme, “A Waltz of the Lights,” is animated with over a million sparkling lights and candles, a distinctive 15-meter Christmas tree gracing...
- Posted November 29, 2023
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Eating disorders: Rates in children reach new highs
Three years following the COVID-19 outbreak, the number of children in Japan diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, remains unusually high. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which people have abnormally low body weight as a result of...
- Posted November 24, 2023
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Japan’s English proficiency 2023 global ranking drops by 7 spots
Japan fell 7 places from last year’s 80th ranking in English proficiency score this year. The 2023 Education First (EF) English Proficiency Index (EFI) is a survey released by the Swiss international education company Education First, which measures...
- Posted November 23, 2023
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Individuals with college degrees continue to get job offers in Japan
The latest report from Japan’s Labor Ministry shows that individuals with a college degree continue to get jobs faster than those with lesser levels of education. By spring next year, nearly 75% of university students set to...
- Posted November 17, 2023
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Irish man in Japan breaks 2 Guinness world records for the longest cooking and baking marathon by an individual
Alan Fisher, owner and chef of Kyojin Stewhouse, a restaurant & catering house in Shimane prefecture Japan, has broken two cooking-related Guinness World Records titles. Beating Nigerian chef Hilda Baci’s previous record by more than 24 hours...
- Posted November 13, 2023
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Japan eyes relaxing residency requirements to enable foreigners to set up a business
Japan’s Immigration Services Agency is considering to allow foreign entrepreneurs to stay in Japan for two years to prepare and launch a business provided they have a concrete business plan and can meet other conditions, even if...
- Posted October 31, 2023
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Tokyo is at persistent risk of a disaster. Prepare your family.
Japan predicts a 70% chance of an earthquake directly hitting Tokyo in the next 30 years. Do you ever wonder how your family would escape if an earthquake shook your building or your home was engulfed in...
- Posted October 31, 2023
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Rising inflation? Japan’s Prime Minister announces his plan for tax cuts and cash handout.
Inflation is on the rise and some families are feeling the squeeze as the price of food, (excluding fresh food) shot up to 7.3 percent and lodging fees to 42.8 percent according to government data. Core consumer...
- Posted October 27, 2023
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Look: Tokyo DisneySea is cooking up something to be excited for in 2024
Oriental Land, the Japanese company that runs Disney brand facilities under license from Disney Enterprises, Inc., has just revealed on Thursday a 2 billion dollar expansion work is currently happening at Tokyo DisneySea. The massive expansion project...
- Posted October 27, 2023
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Princess Mononoke zone opens Nov. 1 at Ghibli Park
Inspired by Studio Ghibli’s animation film, the Princess Momonoke area unveiled to the press at Ghibli Park on Wednesday, opens to the public on November 1. The Momonoke Village within the Ghibli facility brings the world of...
- Posted October 26, 2023
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A new proposal may prolong payment of pension fund contribution
Under Japan’s universal basic pension program known as the “kokumin nenkin”, participants are required to put in premiums starting from age 20 until 59. But a government panel Tuesday has started discussing ways and means to address...
- Posted October 25, 2023
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Nihon University disqualified again from receiving subsidy
The Promotion and Mutual Aid Corp. for Private Schools of Japan decided Monday it will not provide any operating expenditure subsidy to scandal-tainted Nihon University (aka Nichidai) this academic year just as it did in the previous...
- Posted October 24, 2023
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Security cameras are now mandatory for new trains in Japan
Two years ago on October 31, a man disguised in a Joker costume, the villain in Batman superhero franchise, attacked passengers inside a running Keio train just before setting the car on fire. Because there were no...
- Posted October 16, 2023
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Biota of the Imperial Palace
As children begin their forays into the natural world, we can encourage them to know and understand the creatures living in Japan. A good place to start is the Meiji Yasuda Village Marunouchi gallery in Tokyo’s Chiyoda...
- Posted October 16, 2023
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This monster pumpkin weighs the same as a hippopotamus
Travis Gienger squashed the competition with his enormous fruit weighing in at an improbable 2,749 pounds (1,247 kilograms) at the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival in California on Monday. An orange-shirted Gienger punched the air and offered...
- Posted October 12, 2023
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Defining leaving kids home alone as ‘abuse’ faces strong opposition
A group of Liberal Democratic Party members of the Saitama prefectural assembly said Tuesday that the proposal to define leaving children alone as ‘abuse’ will be withdrawn as a result of strong public opposition. The proposal revising...
- Posted October 11, 2023
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Saitama prefecture to introduce a new ordinance against leaving kids at home alone.
Although leaving kids home alone is viewed as a form of abuse in many developed countries, it is legally permitted in Japan. The practice is perhaps due to Japan’s relatively safe communities. But Saitama Prefecture is poised...
- Posted October 5, 2023
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Weariness and anxiety – top reasons why Japanese children refuse to go to school
In 2019, there were 612,496 reported bullying cases in public and private elementary, junior high, and high schools in Japan. That number rose by 68,563 from the previous year. In the latest 2022 annual report, that number...
- Posted October 4, 2023
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Angels Star Ohtani Wins Home Run Title
Los Angeles Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani became the first-ever Japanese major leaguer to win a home run title on Sunday. The 29-year-old Ohtani won the title with 44 home runs, the most in the American League. The...
- Posted October 2, 2023