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JAPAN

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Dec 12, 2012
Christmas gift ideas 2012
Presents for your friends or a little something for yourself? Japan Pulse and The JT have you covered.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Dec 5, 2012
2012: The year in buildings
Shoppers and architecture buffs alike found plenty of new places to enjoy in Tokyo in 2012.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Dec 3, 2012
Japan's top 10 buzzwords for 2012
Here they are: the top 10 phrases and words that made waves in 2012.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Nov 30, 2012
Manga inspire women to embrace 'male' hobbies
Male-dominated hobbies in Japan are being infiltrated by women who got the idea from manga.
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Nov 29, 2012
Today's J-blip: Safecast documentary
Check out this short documentary on Safecast in the Focus Forward documentary competition.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2012
Scholar tries to ease Okinawa's U.S. pains
Three years ago, Robert Eldridge gave up his associate professorship at Osaka University to work on behalf of the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa. He said he thought he could make bigger contributions to U.S.-Japan relations in the prefecture than by teaching about the U.S.-Japan alliance to students at...
CULTURE / Books
Nov 18, 2012
'Cool Japan is over': a sociologist looks at Japan's art world
BEFORE AND AFTER SUPERFLAT: A Short History of Japanese Contemporary Art 1990-2011, by Adrian Favell. Blue Kingfisher, 2012, 246 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 13, 2012
Today's J-blip: gas-neutralizing underwear
If a man passes gas into a mesh of ceramic-infused material, has he well and truly farted?
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Nov 13, 2012
Today's J-blip: Kasō Taishō's YouTube channel
Give it up for oshogatsu's amateur hour and the common (creative) man.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Nov 12, 2012
Today's J-Blip: Safecast iOS app
Safecast bundles piece of mind into a virtual Geiger counter that draws from its independently collected radiation readings.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Nov 11, 2012
Fans irked by a nuclear-free Doraemon
The post-3/11 version of Japan's beloved robot cat now runs on ... magic?
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Nov 11, 2012
Keep Away
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Nov 9, 2012
Today's J-blip: Otoshidama Kit Kat
Money's yummy, but how about a otoshidama Kit Kat?
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Nov 8, 2012
Bull China Shop
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Nov 4, 2012
Tortoise Speed Bump
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Nov 2, 2012
Today's J-blip: kabe-don
The classic shoji-manga romantic showdown scene — the kabe don —u00a0gets remix after remix after ...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Nov 1, 2012
Today's J-blip: Mangazara
You can now justify playing with your food as again.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Nov 1, 2012
Liquidity Bar
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Oct 31, 2012
Tokyo Designers Week 2012
Let's all say Hello to new design at Tokyo Designers Week.

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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?