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True blue tradition: how Japan's coveted jeans are made
AFP, Published on 18/12/2024
» KOJIMA-AJINO (JAPAN) - Call it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim connoisseurs.
Japan boyband agency apologises over sex abuse allegations
AFP, Published on 15/05/2023
» TOKYO - Japan's top boyband agency has issued an apology over sexual assault allegations against its late founder Johnny Kitagawa, with fans demanding Monday that the firm "fully investigate" the matter.
Japan's Indigenous peoples fight stigma to reclaim identities
AFP, Published on 17/02/2023
» BIRATORI/NAHA (JAPAN) - In a forest in northern Japan's Hokkaido, Atsushi Monbetsu kneels on the moss in the thick morning fog and begins to pray in a language that has nearly disappeared.
Japanese man, 71, nabbed for 'making 24,000 complaint calls'
AFP, Published on 03/12/2019
» TOKYO: A Japanese pensioner has been arrested after ringing a phone company 24,000 times to complain they had violated his contract, police and local media reported.