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Japanese toilets are set to become easier to use, after manufacturers agreed to standardise the symbols on the control panels. Japan's hi-tech toilets famously include features such as lid and seat controls, flush strength, front and back bidets, and air ... ( read original story ...)

Extraordinary snow creations of famous anime characters have been appearing all over Japan after recent snowfalls. Less than a month before Sapporo's famous snow festival, amateur snow sculptors have been posting pictures of their creations on social media. ( read original story ...)

Caroline Kennedy is stepping down Wednesday after three years as U.S. ambassador to Japan, where she was welcomed like a celebrity and worked to deepen the U.S.-Japan relationship despite regular flare-ups over American military bases on the southern ... ( read original story ...)

The good news is that Osaka, although she admitted she was ‘very nervous’, felt no recurrence of the left-wrist pain of Auckland, which bodes well for an entertaining contest with Konta. The pair have met once before, in qualifying for the US Open in ... ( read original story ...)

Melbourne: Thailand's Luksika Kumkhum was edged out by Japanese Naomi Osaka in three thrilling sets in the first round of the Australian Open yesterday. The nineteen-year-old Japanese overcame losing the first-set to beat Luksika 6-7 (2), 6-4, 7-5. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo 2020 organizers say they will review membership practices at the golf course selected for the Olympic Games following criticism that it does not allow women as full members. Founded in 1929, the Kasumigaseki Country Club is one of the oldest private ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's legendary Tsukiji fish market, which supplies the city's finest sushi restaurants and the general public, is set to be closed down and moved to a bigger, more modern site. Toichiro Iida, a third-generation tuna wholesaler, explains how families ... ( read original story ...)

A Tokyo hospital director was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of defrauding a company executive after falsely diagnosing him with a sexually transmitted disease, police said. Michinari Hayashi, 69, head of Shinjuku Central Clinic, allegedly swindled about ¥ ... ( read original story ...)

But Tokyo's recently elected governor ... Hiroyasu Ito, told the Kyodo news agency. That's a bit of Japanese understatement. The site of the new market was supposed to have been covered with a thick layer of clean soil before construction began. ( read original story ...)

Each December at the annual Yokohama Hot Rod & Custom Show. That it’s in Yokohama not Yorba Linda perhaps should not be surprising. For when Japanese wax nostalgic their imaginations often head out on a desert highway, into a mythical land they first ... ( read original story ...)