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Japan’s Top 5 Ramen Shops…As Chosen by AI?
A Japanese firm noodled on how to track down the country's top 5 ramen shops - and found a unique way to…
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A Japanese firm noodled on how to track down the country's top 5 ramen shops - and found a unique way to…
POLITICS
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's pricey cherry blossom party is on hold over questions of who's invited - and why Japanese taxpayers are…
WOMEN
Everyone, it seems, is fleeing Japan's countryside for the cities - but women greatly outnumber men in the exodus. How are local…
FOOD
They're sprouting up all over Japan as a way of fighting poverty and hunger. But are "kid's cafeterias" shifting too much of…
FEATURED
How the case of Furuta Junko led Japan's press to break the rules, and citizens to question the country's juvenile criminal law.
SOCIETY
As Japan's summer heat claims victims, a rumor raises fresh health fears around next year's Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
FOOD
Japan's aging population has created a successor crisis that threatens to shutter half of the country's ramen shops.
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A new sake bar is using a radical model to bring in customers - but there are a few catches.