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Japanese Emperor Naruhito will be ushered into a dark wooden hall on Thursday night to celebrate his last major accession rite after becoming emperor this spring: spending the night with a goddess. (Photo: AP)

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Row over Japan Emperor's last accession rite: 'Spend night' with...

Though the empress, dressed in robes with a long train, also appears, she does not follow him in.

14 Nov 2019 3:57 PM IST

History gets a nod, with the tale of a feudal era Japanese girl forced to stay in a secluded hut because of the belief that menstruating females are unclean. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

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Japan tackles menstruation taboos with manga comic character

'Little Miss Period' tackles Japan's menstruation taboos with a punch.

17 Dec 2019 6:00 PM IST

India

Japanese PM's India visit postponed over protests in NE against...

The cancellation of Abe's trip came a day after Bangladeshi Foreign and Home Ministers called off their visits to India.

13 Dec 2019 10:20 AM IST

Modern artisans are creating new types of accessories using the cloth flowers, such as earrings and brooches. (Photo: AP)

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Traditional Japanese hair-dos to try this season

Easy-to-make flowers for traditional Japanese hair ornaments.

12 Dec 2019 11:42 AM IST

$One 38-year-old woman, who declined to give her name, said she \didnt have the courage\ to find a spouse and move away from her mother, who had come with her to the match-making party. (Representational Image)$ World

Why young Japanese are choosing to not get married?

The same father said his eldest daughter was married but his youngest, a doctor living in the US, is single at the age...

6 Dec 2019 3:34 PM IST

Japan is seeing an increasing number of social problems caused by the nations rapidly ageing population. (Representational Image)

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71-year-old Japan man arrested for making 24,000 complaint calls

He has been arrested on suspicion of 'fraudulent obstruction of business', the spokesman added.

3 Dec 2019 3:34 PM IST

The robots were not able to execute some of the most basic tasks, leading to the expulsion of half of them. (Photo: ANI)

Technology

Japanese hotel fires robot staff because they suck at their jobs

The hotel hired its first robot staff back in 2015 to become the most efficient hotel in the world.

23 Jan 2019 3:41 PM IST

The moon as viewed by Chandrayaan-Is camera from a distance of 3,11,200 km on November 4. (Photo: ISRO)

Science

Toyota to build Japan's next moon rover

The carmaker will help build a pressurized self-driving rover that will land on the lunar surface in 2029.

13 March 2019 11:13 AM IST

India

Japan gives Ness Wadia 2-year suspended sentence for possessing drugs:...

Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Japan's narcotics laws are being applied tightly.

30 April 2019 1:04 PM IST

Akihito, 85, was the first Japanese monarch to take the throne under a post-war constitution that defines the emperor as a symbol of the people without political power. (Photo: AP)

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Japanese Emperor Akihito to abdicate after three decades on throne

Akihito, who has had treatment for prostate cancer and heart surgery, said that his age would make it hard for him to...

30 April 2019 11:26 AM IST

The worlds smallest baby boy, who was born in October in Japan weighing as much as an apple, is now ready for the outside world. (Photo: AFP)

Life

Japanese couple take home 'world's smallest baby boy'

'World's smallest baby boy', born in October, set to go home in Japan.

19 April 2019 12:44 PM IST

Hype about 5G, the upcoming fifth generation of cellular networks, was in huge overdrive last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the annual showcase of the mobile device business.

Technology

5G-connected cows test milking parlour of the future

The 5G-connected gadgets they are wearing is a collar that controls a robotic milking system.

12 April 2019 1:29 PM IST