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Meg steps into the SoraKitchen, and steps back out with a strawberry shortcake in record time.
The often-overlooked Doto region of Japan’s northern island is off the beaten path, but should be on your itinerary.
”If you spent four hours and 40 minutes playing video games, how much time did you waste?” has no easy answer.
After making jaws drop both on the mound and at the plate, the Los Angeles Angels’ two-way star is winning fans with his performance in the dugout.
Back-to-back unanimous votes draw praise from Minister in Charge of Women’s Empowerment, but will anything really change?
Demand grows more than 10 times in size in just five years as Japanese family dynamics change.
Breathtaking artwork form Hiroshima artist looks more like photography than oil paintings.
Man with more determination than brains says after initial rejection days earlier, he “just couldn’t forget her.”
After tasting defeat at Fatburger in America a year ago, we’re back for a rematch as the Los Angeles-based burger chain comes to Japan.
Local citizen takes the law into her own hands and catches the prepaid card-stealing bird, but lands in trouble with the authorities herself.
Oh, and there’s also all-you-can-eat crab as part of the deal at this hotel in the coastal onsen resort of Atami.
It’s the name that turns many English-speakers off, but even people in Japan sometimes take issue the way Calpis can linger in your mouth.
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