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Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games

April 24, 2018

General view of the construction site of the Tokyo Olympic stadium in Tokyo, Japan, 24 April 2018, as the eighth Project Review meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games

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Catalan Holiday

April 23, 2018

An elderly woman on a wheelchair poses for a picture in front of a banner depecting Catalonia’s ousted leader Carles Puigdemont characterized as Goku of the Japanese animated serie “Dragon Ball Z” in a street of Barcelona on April 23,

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117-year-old Japanese woman, seen as world’s oldest person, dies

April 22, 2018

Kagoshima- Nabi Tajima, seen as the oldest living person in the world, died of old age at a hospital in her town of Kikai in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Saturday. She was 117. Born on Aug. 4, 1900, Tajima

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Japan’s 15-yr-old boy comes 1st in International ballet competition

April 22, 2018

New York- Japan’s Yuma Matsuura came in first in the senior age division at the Youth America Grand Prix audition for promising young ballet dancers from across the globe, the organizer said Friday. As there was no Grand Prix award

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Annual spring festival at the Yasukuni Shrine

April 21, 2018

Tokyo- Shinto priests walk to the main shrine to attend a purification ritual during the annual spring festival at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, on Saturday, 21 April 2018. A day earlier, a group of Japanese lawmakers visited the

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Japanese Cherry Trees in Denmark

April 21, 2018

Denmark- Japanese cherry trees stand in full bloom as people young and old visit the Bispebjerg Cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark on Friday, April 20, 2018. AFP-Jiji Press

Sony, US univ to develop home-use food preparation robot

April 20, 2018

Tokyo- Sony Corp. and Carnegie Mellon University aim to jointly develop a home-use robot for food preparation that utilizes artificial intelligence technology, the Japanese electronics maker has said. Sony and the US university have concluded an agreement to collaborate on

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Cafes offering students virtual workday experience in Japan

April 20, 2018

Tokyo- Some cafes in Japan are offering college students simulated experiences, using virtual reality technology, of everyday life at work in a company. The simulation takes the user through a day in the life of a company employee, moving beyond

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