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It's one of Osaka's most famous sites. It's also become an increasingly dangerous spot for young girls with nowhere else to go.
Nearly half of women in Japan say they have to wait in excruciatingly long lines to use the restroom. Is that discrimination?
Resellers appear to have struck again in Japan - this time, causing chaos in a rush to buy up the new NVIDIA RTX 5080/5090 GPUs.
There's good wages to be had in tourism-heavy towns like Niseko and Hakone. But some employers are grousing they can't afford to pay.
Thanks to a labor shortage, immigrants continue to flock to Japan looking for new opportunities.
Here's why police around Himeji Castle are telling tourists that if the plate is white, you should say "thanks, I'm alright."

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