GBP/JPY faces pressure after refreshing five-month high near 196.85 after the BoJ held interest rates unchanged at 0.5%.

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Donald Keene's journey tracing the footsteps of haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) in Basho's masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi," which Keene later trans･･･ ...

Recently, many voice actors from Japan and North America alike have commented on the use of A.I. when it comes to the roles that actors have in various anime projects, and the latest example is a ...

Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada, two stars of the hit series “Shogun,” discuss history, acting and what they’d bring to the ...

Hoshino broke down the production of his latest project and shared his current mindset after his six-and-a-half-year journey ...

The Village Voice looks at four books that help navigate the black holes of Trump’s deceitful deportation and detention agenda.

Jesus Gonzalez, a senior from Dacula, Georgia, pursuing a degree in interdisciplinary studies, took first place in the ...

Why doesn't Japanese use spaces? The fact that Japanese is a syllable-based language, and has 3 different writing systems, makes spaces unnecessary. In addition, particles, verb endings and ...

In the very first year of living in Japan, you will not be charged a municipal tax. As an example, based on the typical salaries of full-time English teachers, you can be expected to pay between ...

The difficulty of writing lipograms obviously depends on ... that contains every letter of the alphabet. The most famous example is “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” (which is ...

Both countries have relied on the United States for their security and have sought to be valuable allies. For example, Japan hosts the largest overseas deployment of US troops, while Estonia has ...