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The horrific tsunami that swept across Iwate Prefecture and other areas of Tohoku’s...
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The Space Needle was built in 1962 for the World’s Fair. But it...
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Japan set a goal of 20 million foreign visitors by 2020, when Tokyo...
It’s easy to get depressed by today’s news and seemingly unbridgeable political divide....
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