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Monday, December 9, 2024

Participants in the "Kimino High School" program receive curry, a staple of school lunches in Japan, in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, on Oct. 9, 2024. (Mainichi/Koichiro Tezuka)=Click/tap photo for more images.

Foreign tourists in uniform attend traditional Japanese classes at abandoned school

KIMITSU, Chiba -- Inbound tourists dressed in traditional Japanese uniforms experienced nostalgic school life in Japan during a unique one-day program Full article

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Kanji characters suggesting "June 4 Tiananmen," the date of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, are seen embedded in the source code of the University of Tokyo graduate school's admissions information website, as of Nov. 10, 2023. The source code was available from the National Diet Library's Web Archiving Project (WARP).

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Chiharu Watari, executive vice president of East Japan Railway Co., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Taisei Miyashiro (2nd from R) celebrates with teammates Yoshinori Muto (3rd from R) and Yuya Osako (far R) after opening the scoring for Vissel Kobe in the first half of their J-League first-division game against Shonan Bellmare at Noevir Stadium Kobe on Dec. 8, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Japanese leaf-cutting artist, who goes by the name Lito, looks at his freshly cut work featuring a frog with an umbrella, during an interview in Tokyo, on Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)=Click/tap photo for more images.

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A Ritsumeikan University student use the "Kokoro Distance Meter" to analyze the level of emotional connection between two individuals in this photo provided by the university.

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As of December 6, 2024, 2:00 p.m.
As of the November 25 - December 1, 2024 period
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Change from prev. week +0.61
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