Japanese spend a lot of time thinking about manners, and spend a lot of time riding trains too. So that means, of course, that people in Japan also spend a lot of time thinking about manners related ...

A teacher at a public junior high school in Kanagawa Prefecture has been suspended for six months after attaching a dog leash to a first-y ...

Recipes for 30 Japanese dishes ... The Otori Gakuen school devised a recipe for canned saury, rice noodles and other ingredients mixed in a thick plastic bag. It can be prepared without using ...

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The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.

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Kevin Willard is bolting Maryland to become the Villanova head coach after an ugly saga in which the 49-year-old openly ...

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The first time Sakata Kanako saw Vu Khac Linh was in 2019, when he nervously lingered outside a restaurant in Fukuoka, Japan, ...