Japan’s office managers are experimenting with this radical new trend called “working from home”

More and more Japanese companies are rising to the call of prime minister Shinzo Abe to fix Japan’s moribund economy by giving employees the flexibility to work remotely. The practice is known as “telework,” or terewaku, in Japan, and it’s slowly gaining traction in a country where corporate norms such as putting in face time […]

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Japan cherry blossom season begins, marking start of spring

TOKYO –  Cherry blossom season has officially kicked off in Tokyo, marking the beginning of spring for the Japanese. A Japan Meteorological Agency official counted at least five flowers blooming on a monitoring tree Tuesday at Yasukuni Shrine. He made the much-awaited announcement to media and visitors taking photos of a few pale pink flowers

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120,000 still displaced after Japan’s 2011 tragedy

TOKYO • Japan paused yesterday to mark six years since a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster devastated its north-eastern coast, as more than 100,000 people remain unable or unwilling to return home. The 9.0-magnitude quake, which struck under the Pacific Ocean on March 11, 2011, and the tsunami it spawned left about 18,500 people

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Life in plastic, it’s fantastic: Japan’s ‘fake food’ looks tastier than real food

They may look good enough to eat, but Japan’s mouthwatering food replicas are only for show as restaurateurs compete for the attention of hungry customers. They’re common sights in this food-obsessed nation, with everything from sudsy beers and perfectly glazed sushi to hamburgers and deep-fried pork cutlets, known as tonkatsu, on display. Making fake food

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