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A travel blogger is the latest in a long line to fall foul of public opinion after posting an inappropriate picture of Auschwitz on social media. Instagrammer Atuk Apil put up a picture of a rubber duck outside the concentration camp memorial in Poland, wher…

Guten Tag! Recently I went to Tokyo on a business trip for Developers.IO 2019 and was amazed with many cool things that went on there. Side note - I'm actually Japanese and had lived in Tokyo for 7 years, so I thought I already knew a lot about Tokyo. But…

TOKONAME, AICHI PREF. – Avid fans of all-girl pop act AKB48 braved a persistent drizzle outside Aichi Sky Expo on a recent Saturday morning, forming a long queue as they waited for a “handshaking” session with the group’s idols to kick off. Some had traveled…

King County Executive Dow Constantine pleads the case for high-speed rail at a conference hosted by Microsoft. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Microsofts aspiration to build one of Americas first high-speed rail lines in the Pacific Northwest hit a spe…

The Tokyo Motor Show always picks a themethe event happens every two yearsand for 2019 it was "Open Future." By itself, it doesn't mean much: Is the future open, or should we open the future? It means a lot to the Japanese automakers, however, that thoroughly…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption The Hokuriku-Shinkansen line trains were parked in a yard in Nagano city Ten Japanese bullet trains partially submerged by floodwater from Typhoon Hagibis last month are to be scrapped. Some components could still be us…

The 10 Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet trains with 12 cars each that were inundated by Typhoon Hagibis last month will be scrapped due to severe damage. At a news conference Wednesday, East Japan Railway Co. President Yuji Fukasawa said that, of the 10 trains, th…

If you’re visiting Japan for the first time, there will certainly be some things that don’t match your expectations. You may be surprised to see some well-known stereotypes turn out to be completely false! Here’s a few common myths about Japan that actually a…

An expert has praised East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) for preventing a shinkansen train from crashing during a powerful earthquake 15 years ago even though the train derailed. After the first derailment accident involving a shinkansen train in commercial op…

Another Italian town has resorted to giving away historic buildings for free in order to attract new residents and revive its fortunes. Cammarata in Sicily is the latest destination to lure inhabitants with the promise of complimentary housing after more tha…