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Celebrating 69 years of Phil-Japan friendship through fashion
Philippine STAR
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August 18, 2025
August 19, 2025 | 12:00am The Philippine Organizing Committee (POC) for Expo 2025 Osaka hosted Woven: Philippine Diplomatic Night of Fashion and Music at the Conrad Osaka. This was a cultural celebration marking the 69th year of diplomatic...
Japan’s Asics H1 profit surges 37.5% as lifestyle brands fuel growth
Fibre 2 Fashion
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Japanese sportswear company Asics Corporation has posted net sales of ¥402,798 million (~$2.73 billion) in the first six months ended June 30, 2025, up 17.7 per cent year-over-year (YoY), surpassing the ¥400 billion milestone for the first time at...
Japanese underground idol culture booming in China
The Mainichi
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August 18, 2025
SHANGHAI (Kyodo) -- At a club in Shanghai, dozens of young people are jumping and waving glow sticks as they dance to the music, leaning in as if to touch the performers on stage. They're Chinese amateur girl groups singing in Japanese, and this...
Japan deploys large drone over Senkakus Islands amid China ship intrusions
The Mainichi
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August 18, 2025
This file photo taken in 2012 from a Mainichi Shimbun aircraft shows Uotsuri Island, one of the Senkaku Islands. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan is using a large coast guard drone, the SeaGuardian, to monitor the Senkaku Islands in the East...
Japanese Walking Boosts Work-Life Balance, Experts Say
Times News Global
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August 18, 2025
CHICAGO, IL — Health experts are promoting a new trend called Japanese Walking, which can improve work-life balance through a unique walking routine. This exercise method alternates between brisk and normal-paced walking, allowing individuals to...
Japan: AI and extraterritoriality dominate patent landscape as JPO refines examination practice
Intellectual Asset Management
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August 18, 2025
In summary Fiscal year 2024 was marked by steady improvements in patent examination practice, while court decisions also helped to crystallise the important issues that will shape the patent landscape in the years ahead. While the recent rulings...
Japan's Akie Iwai Claims First LPGA Victory at Portland Classic
Nippon
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August 18, 2025
Newsfrom Japan Sports Aug 18, 2025 12:29 (JST) Portland, Oregon, Aug. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japanese golfer Akie Iwai captured her first LPGA tour title on Sunday at the Standard Portland Classic in the U.S. state of Oregon, finishing at 24 under par....
Japanese Breakfast to play Pappy and Harriet's with new sound
Desert Sun - California
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Japanese Breakfast's new album explores darker themes than previous ones. Frontwoman Michelle Zauner talks about why. The band will play Pappy and Harriet's in Pioneertown on Thursday, Aug. 21. See their full tour schedule. Michelle Zauner took a...
Robert Glasper Opens Blue Note Los Angeles In Pitch-Perfect Fashion
Live For Live Music - Michigan
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August 18, 2025
Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood had never looked quite like this. On the second Thursday in August, the famed Cinerama Dome, which had been dark since COVID, glowed a rich, electric blue, marking the long-awaited arrival of Blue Note Los Angeles,...
What Engine Powered The Mustang From The Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift?
SlashGear
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August 18, 2025
There's no arguing with the fact that "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" is a one of the cult gearhead films of the 21st century, and partially responsible for the rise of interest in Japanese tuning culture. While Supras and Skylines are...
A lifelong symphony: How an engineer's passion for music led to a Hollywood award
Ottawa News Network - Michigan
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August 18, 2025
HOLLAND — For most of his life, Daniel Fisher has lived a double life. By day, an engineer; by night, a composer. But after a decades-long journey of balancing a professional career with a private passion, the two worlds have converged, with...
TarabA new podcast series on the Middle East's music scene
The National News
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Tarab is a new weekly music podcast hosted by The National’s Saeed Saeed that takes you inside the Middle East’s music scene. The first season brings you conversations with some of the region’s most captivating voices, from genre-defying...
One of the biggest movie franchises ever drops on Netflix starring beloved late actor
Metro
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August 18, 2025
Hollywood actor Paul Walker tragically died in 2013 at the age of 40 (Picture: Pictures/Everett/Shutterstock) Netflix has quietly dropped seven huge films from one of the biggest movie franchises of all time – and they all star a beloved late...
Moa Kai Hawaiian Diner opens, Stufd dumplings in works, Shōgun Japanese Steakhouse closes and more Orlando foodie news
Orlando Weekly - Florida
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August 18, 2025
click to enlarge Photo courtesy Hoi Nguyen Moa Kai Hawaiian Diner is now soft-opened at 2217 E. Colonial Drive OPENINGS/CLOSINGS: A month after announcing he'll open Saikō Coffee inside Orlando Racket Sports, former Sorekara head of mixology,...
‘Stable Instability’: China-Japan Dilemmas in the Shadow of Sino-American Rivalry
The Diplomat
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August 17, 2025
As Asia-Pacific nations grapple with an increasingly complex security environment, Japan and China find themselves locked in what can be described as “stable instability” – a relationship characterized by sustained economic engagement alongside...
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’s Movie Revived Its Most Underrated Spinoff
Comicbook
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August 18, 2025
The first installment of the Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle film was released on July 18th, 2025, only in Japanese theaters. Thanks to the film’s hype and surge in publicity, it broke several box office records in the country. The film’s success is...
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A Teenager Reunites the Living and the Dead in Japanese Hit Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon — Read an Excerpt! (Exclusive) By Lizz Schumer
People - New York
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NEED TO KNOW Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura, translated by Yuki Tejima follows a teenager who reunites the living and the dead The book, which has already sold millions of copies in Japan, hits shelves stateside Aug. 26...
We TAIWAN: Identity Through Art Beyond Expo
JAPAN Forward
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August 18, 2025
このページを 日本語 で読む A visual art exhibition is underway at the VS. event space in Osaka’s Kita Ward. Holographic projection mapping casts scenes of the sky, the ocean, and whales onto a 15-meter-high wall, drawing viewers into a dreamlike, painterly...
All about Keigo: The Japanese principle of honorific speech, followed from the time of samurai
The Indian Express
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August 18, 2025
If you’ve ever tried learning Japanese, you might have come across Keigo (敬語)—the intricate system of polite speech that makes conversations in Japan sound so refined and respectful. But for those unfamiliar with it, Keigo can feel like an...
Scoot Enhances Connectivity with New Routes to Chiang Rai, Okinawa and Tokyo (Haneda)
The Hans India
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August 18, 2025
INDIA - Scoot, the low-cost subsidiary of Singapore Airlines (SIA), today announced the launch of new flight services to Chiang Rai in Thailand, and Okinawa and Tokyo (Haneda) in Japan. These flights will commence progressively between December...