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Japan showroom gives feel of living with robot
Published on 25/07/2015
» OSAKA — What will it be like living with a humanoid robot that can read human emotions and exchange conversations with humans?
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Chinese tourist shopping sprees causing flight delays
Published on 14/07/2015
» CHIBA, JAPAN — Chinese travellers going on duty-free buying frenzies at Narita airport have been gumming up the works by causing delays to China-bound flights.
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Quake reveals Japan woefully unprepared to help foreigners
Published on 16/09/2018
» TOKYO: The powerful earthquake that hit Japan's popular tourist destination of Hokkaido, the country's northernmost main island, has highlighted a lack of preparedness to provide information to foreign visitors in a time of a disaster.
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Ride-sharing services face rocky road in Japan
Published on 17/04/2018
» TOKYO: Japan is proving a tough market to crack for ride-sharing service providers, and not just because of regulatory barriers -- there is also a relative lack of demand in a country where taxis are safe, affordable and, in urban areas, easy to catch.
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Novelist elucidates Thailand-Japan ties through wartime love story
Published on 20/03/2018
» Just as any country that experienced wars, Thailand, which was involved in both world wars, has its share of bestseller novels that are themed on wartime love stories.
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Dinner that's out of this world
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 12/01/2018
» No, it wasn't terrifying. No, the dining station didn't sway. No, there's no glass shell nor safety bar between you and the space around you. And yes, the food was good.
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Romance, by the numbers
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 14/01/2018
» Aaron is a physically active man in his late 50s. He owns a distribution company and is a widower, his wife having passed away from cancer six years ago. They were high school sweethearts. He has tried to move on and meet new women, including by signing up with a speed dating company, but says he found he was at "the bottom of the dating barrel" at such events due to his advanced age.
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S.Korea plans 'comfort women' museum
Kyodo News, Published on 11/07/2017
» SEOUL - South Korea's new gender equality and family minister said Monday a plan has been formed to establish a museum in Seoul to commemorate former Korean women forced into Japanese wartime brothels.
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'Fair trade' in coconut oil changes life on small Indonesian island
Kyodo News, Published on 27/04/2017
» KOBE -- A "fair trade" offer by a Japanese woman to buy pure coconut oil from a small Indonesian island has changed the lives of the people there, who previously earned a living blast fishing reefs.
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Japanese tourists flock to long-disputed Cambodian border temple
Kyodo News, Published on 06/04/2017
» PREAH VIHEAR - The ancient cliff-top temple that Cambodia and Thailand have fought over for more than a century has proved to be an unlikely hit with Japanese tourists.
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