A new area featuring Donkey Kong will open at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka in the spring of 2024.

Prince Hisahito coauthors an academic paper on dragonflies at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo.
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A dog walking event for the Akita Inu breed takes place in Tokyo to mark 100 years since the birth of Hachiko, the faith...
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Children set up a gigantic dragon statue made of rice straw at a shrine in western Japan to welcome the year of the drag...
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Smile-Up, the successor firm to Johnny & Associates, announces that it has started compensating victims of sexual abuse ...
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More than 1,000 North Korean defectors join a job-hunting event in Seoul.
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Workers at Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Chiba Prefecture weave sacred ropes from rice straw.
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Prime Minister Kishida Fumio says Japan will stop building unabated coal power plants at the COP28 summit, but the count...
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Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, turns 22 years old.
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A ceremony takes place in Tokyo to mark 500 days to go until the Osaka Expo begins in western Japan.
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