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Japan’s biggest chain of used books and other media blends right in with the City of Lights.
We’d meant to compare French tonkotsu with Japanese tonkotsu, but we couldn’t resist trying a brand new kind of ramen!
Foreign tourists ignore requests by rail operators to watch their manners on trains in Japan.
People in Japan now concerned over what might happen on public transport during the Tokyo Olympics.
Takahashi was awarded the 2019 Grand Prix at France’s Angoulême Festival, but fans in her native Japan were confused by how her work was framed.
Got Talent series regular Wes-P tries again, this time in the land of Voltaire and Sartre.
Single traveler spent two nights in Japan before disappearing while in mountainous sightseeing town.
Four macaron flavours, imported directly from France, now come packaged in cute McDonald’s takeout boxes.
Already having made a substantial impact in France, the eccentric music of Les Romanesques is looking to break big in Japan.
Our reporter Yuichiro Wasai visited a love hotel in Paris, France to see how they differed from Japanese ones, and left emotionally scarred.
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