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With thousands less tourists in Nara due to the Coronavirus, this year’s winter celebrations seem strangely more magical.
Get to know three of the people behind the “sexy” English-language voice announcements you’ll hear on public transport in Japan.
Spacious eight-person room makes a perfect base for shinobi missions in Tokyo, but passing up sushi counter room is a hard choice.
Japanese government recommends spending two weeks in Hawaii on your way to Micronesia in order to comply with new rule.
Stroll the streets of Electric Town at a time when computers and video games were just beginning to appear on the scene.
People are falling in love with the wide-eyed visitor from abroad who discovers Kabukicho isn’t really like it is in video games.
Japan Tourism Agency uses ninja, sumo and geisha to demonstrate what to do and what not to do in Japan.
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