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Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru says he can hardly sleep and no one even compliments him in the papers.
A plan to extend the current five-year visitor visa to 10 years for China's elite has many on Japan's far right up in arms.
A popular onsen in Yamagata Prefecture brings in so much traffic that the city has instituted new rules to reduce congestion.
A member of ultra-famous Japanese boy band SMAP paid a woman an eye-watering settlement. Fans and the media want to know why.
Would you pay to shop in a bookstore? Many in Japan would. Here's why Bunkitsu and other admission-based bookstores are booming.
In what some netizens are calling a Christmas Eve tradition, Domino's Japan stores countrywide failed to deliver on their pie promises.

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