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Costs and other societal changes have made ceremonies smaller, and certain practices are approaching obsoleteness.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology says that in three years teachers might get their holidays to themselves.
A widespread health crisis served as a wake-up call to many people’s own personal health crises.
A hidden treasure opposite the Imperial Palace looks set to go under the hammer for a high price.
Revised visa regulations aim to help interns unable to return home and who need a job in Japan.
Public health agency pleads with one group to take simple but critical precaution against heatstroke.
Liquored up naps, sometimes in car lanes, are so common in one part of Japan that there’s a new vocabulary word for it.
Three brackets make up the majority of financial expectations, but some women require a lot more.
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