There’s a new sweets store in town, with a luxury chocolate crepe you can’t get anywhere else.
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Study shows fewer Japanese living in each and every prefecture, opposite for foreign resident number.
Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum wants to take you back in time to an old-school summer festival.
In particular, an uncommon find from his childhood will never go stale in his mind.
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Kids’ bad behavior gets the whole school barred from the fast food restaurant down the street.
Spending a night in Dormy Inn’s quasi-capsule hotel rooms still gets you access to all the great stuff the facility offers.
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