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Becomes first major restaurant chain in Japan to provide cooked food to “children’s cafeteria” facilities.
Company continues to put people first as it meets with victims’ families and refuses to use funds for business recovery.
You don’t need a sharp tongue when you’ve got sharp ears, plus the power of magical girl Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
President promises upcoming anime movies are still in production, but says “Things are still very far from normal.”
A cute Twitter observation shows that romance is like fine wine – it gets better with age.
”We’re only taking the most important things with us,” dad says before Typhoon Hagibis, and son knows exactly what that is.
Typhoon Hagibis brought Team Canada’s World Cup campaign to an early finish, but the kindhearted athletes still had one more thing to do in Japan.
Pays thoughtful youth a compliment while demonstrating how sometimes “kindness flies like a boomerang.”
The company has received over one billion yen (US$10.1 million), and plans to use every single one for human beings, not business.
Japanese Twitter shows that the Internet isn’t all savage memes and fighting about politics.
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Tells rising star it’s OK to cry, and does plenty of it herself.
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