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Survey sees if high school students know what they can and can’t do under the accelerated end of childhood.
Shorter workweek would help fight coronavirus, allow more time for family and education, proponents say.
Energy drink maker gets edgy in Coming of Age Day message, but some people think they need to grow up.
The coronavirus has disrupted everyone’s lifestyle, but it’s disrupted some of the bad parts too.
Fushimi Inari-taisha did all sorts of things to keep visitors safe this New Year’s, and one may be steeped in the local culture’s velvety harshness.
In a normal year, right now anime fans wouldn’t just be emptying their wallets, they’d be filling up blood vials too.
In a year like no other, school insists on enforcing same old dress code even while temperature in classrooms is anything but normal.
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