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TOKYO, August 16. /TASS/. The first trip to the southern Kuril Islands, organized for Japanese tourists, will last six days, the Kyodo news agency reported on Friday, adding that up to 35 people would take the tour. According to the news agency, the trip, planned for October 11-16, will involve ...

A 59-year-old truck driver named Shuji Hotta has been arrested by Japanese authorities for allegedly faxing an arson threat to the organizers of the Aichi Triennale in the Japanese cities of Nagoya and Toyota. He was apprehended on Wednesday after convenience store security footage showed him sending a fax the ...

Wandering around Hawaii, you might sometimes feel as if you’ve teleported, unaware, to a different archipelago across the Pacific. Cat figurines beckon from shop windows. Sashimi and bento boxes abound. Signs feature subtitles inscrutable to an English speaker. Hawaii’s ties with Japan are strong. But they could have been much ...

Uncle Tetsu Japanese Cheesecake has officially brought its fluffy, spongey take on cheesecake to the masses in Midtown. The Japan-based bakery with a cult following opened its first New York City store at 135 West 41st St. last month — and the shop’s famous cheesecakes are already popping up all ...

TOKYO, July 29. /TASS/. Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) plans to launch regular flights between the Japanese capital of Tokyo and Russia’s Far Eastern city of Vladivostok in March 2020, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday. According to the paper, ANA “is expected to offer several flights a week between ...

SEOUL/TOKYO — With Japan and South Korea continuing to feud over Tokyo’s controls on exports of chipmaking materials, Japanese companies are increasingly feeling the heat as boycotts by South Korean consumers pick up steam. The campaign first took off among smaller businesses. Midsize convenience stores in Seoul prominently display stickers declaring ...

TOKYO/SEOUL — A boycott by South Korean consumers is hitting some of Japan’s biggest brands and casting a shadow over the country’s tourism industry as political tensions between Seoul and Tokyo continue to rise. The hashtag #boycottjapan, aimed at consumer brands such as Sony, Toyota, Uniqlo and Canon, began trending ...

INTERVIEWER  Ukiyo-e is a enjoying something of a resurgence in Japan and around the world. The new Japanese passports incorporate designs from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai. At a US auction in March this year, two prints from that series—Fine Wind, Clear Morning [commonly known as ...

Even with the steamy sun hovering in the clear blue midafternoon sky, the decision to walk to our accommodation from the airport, bags in tow, is easily made. My friend and I have just arrived in Yoron, a small island that forms part of Japan’s Amami Islands archipelago that sits ...

Kansai to Paris CDG in Air France Economy Class Kansai Airport This morning’s flight to Paris is from the main International airport serving Osaka located in Kansai around 25-miles from downtown and easily accessed by train or limousine bus, or ferry from nearby Kobe. Air France check-in is positioned in ...