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Where commuters have less than 40 centimetres (16 inches) of foot-space between safety lines.
One noodle-dispensing vending machine in the north of Japan is so beloved that you can now buy it in dessert form with a special box.
Yoshiwara was once where men with money to burn came to entertain themselves, while this woman was eating rotten pickles, or sometimes nothing at all.
After years of using her own style, our Japanese-born reporter finally does what her parents were trying to get her to do all along.
Wakayama’s Adventure World celebrates its 17th panda birth as the baby’s father breaks a record.
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