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The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Friday and revised up its assessment on consumption, signalling its ...

China imposed a ban last year after Japan began releasing treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. They ...

Benmou Suzuki's dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly ...

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This era of Japanese history, where the ancient world and the modern ... discovers the dark and chaotic devil-maw that surrounds his brother's painting of the Buddha is one of my favorite moments of ...

Japan has climbed from sixth place last year to the second spot in the 2024 Best Countries index due to its sweeping reforms ...

Emerging from the head of the world's tallest bronze Buddha and climbing down to its right ear, two specialist cleaners gave the imposing Japanese statue an annual spruce up Monday to help it look its ...

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