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Valentine's Day is a big deal worldwide, including in Japan. To understand why you need to understand how the holiday...[ Click to read more ]
It's January. Suddenly, western Japan is a great deal colder than you imagined it would be. You want to go...[ Click to read more ]
Valentine’s Day is an essential holiday throughout Japan, but it’s extra significant in Kobe. Here, a chocolate shop advertised Valentine’s...[ Click to read more ]
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Japan hosted the first-ever Winter Olympics in Asia at Sapporo in 1972, but the country already had a rich history...[ Click to read more ]
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In his 1977 classic one-hit wonder, John Paul Young sang the immortal lines "Love is in the air, everywhere I...[ Click to read more ]