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The candidates for the top ten catchphrases that defined Reiwa’s first year are here! Who knew bubble tea could be a verb?
Users rush to post and gush over photos of the waterlogged caverns beneath Japan’s Metropolitan Area.
”We’re only taking the most important things with us,” dad says before Typhoon Hagibis, and son knows exactly what that is.
Unexpected post-typhoon scene in Japan is so beautiful it looks like something from a movie.
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.
Residents trapped by rising floodwaters use special disaster hashtags to get the attention of the Self-Defence Forces.
In Akihabara, giant screens blared happy tunes to deserted streets as a life-threatening typhoon approached Japan.
There’s a fine line between kindly simplifying the Japanese language and offensively dumbing it down for foreign readers.
Store shelves stripped of goods as suspended services leave people with “no escape” at airport.
Commuters waited in jaw-dropping queues that stretched for several blocks outside train stations in and around Tokyo.
Commuters were forced to line up outside train stations around the city as staff restricted entry due to suspended services.
You know you’re in for a rough time when a storm freaks out someone who has literally seen all of the earth.
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