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Tohoku University evicts entire dormitory for rampant drinking, is a zany 80s...
On 15 July, Tohoku University sent eviction notices to all 105 residents of Meizenryo, a student-governed dormitory in Sendai. The school claims that the students violated their “promise to abstain...
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Anger online as tweeting tech guru Takeshi Natsuno slams Sendai for rejecting...
You may have heard the name Takeshi Natsuno before. A Keio University professor, former Senior Vice President at NTT Docomo, Sega Sammy big-wig, and creator of i-mode, he is by all accounts an...
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First nuclear power plant set to restart in Japan after 2011 meltdown
Against much public backlash, two reactors at a nuclear power plant in Sendai are scheduled to be restarted. These will be the first to restart operations after all the country’s nuclear plants were...
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Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo’s sprawling mural will soon welcome travelers...
Surely any list of Japan’s greatest animators and directors must include Katsuhiro Otomo, the man behind the likes of Akira, Domu, and Steamboy. Otomo’s distinctive mix of neo-futurism, cyberpunk, and...
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Driving up the Miyagi coastline, four years after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake...
I recently visited several areas of the Miyagi coastline decimated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. This is what I saw. The 2011 Tohoku magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which struck off the coast...
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Popular Japanese cafe chain apologises for using detergent instead of oil to...
Afternoon Tea TEAROOM is recalling the affected batch of fried items after customers complained of numbness in their tongues. Popular Japanese cafe chain Afternoon Tea TEAROOM is appealing for...
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High school student expelled for having sex, sues school for 6 million yen
Someone’s getting excessively punished here and its up to the courts to decide who. Last December a student at Seiwa Gakuen High School in Sendai City was called into the principal’s office and told...
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Zoo Jeans from Japan uses denim marked with the claws and teeth of lions
The venture is being promoted by a local branch of Loft chainstores to help revitalise the Tohoku area. As part of the Tohoku region’s revitalisation activities, Sendai’s Loft store has been offering...
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Cats appear at Japan’s famous Tanabata Festival in Sendai this summer
The huge streamer decorations that draw crowds from all around Japan will now feature adorable cat characters created by an anime artist. Every summer, people from around the country travel north of...
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Sexy Japanese actress strokes turtle head in tourism promotion video drawing...
Controversial video expected to be taken down shortly. While the majority of Japan gets uncomfortably muggy during the summer months, the northeastern Tohoku region is a pleasant exception. So in...
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What it’s like inside a $3,000 a night Japanese hotel room 【Video】
The palatial room can be found at a hotel that accommodates the Japanese Emperor on his travels. From converted prisons to capsule hotels, Japan has plenty of accommodation options on offer for...
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Enormous Buddhist Kannon statue in Sendai shocks visitors with otherworldly...
It’s so massive that from certain angles it looks like Japan is under attack by a giant alien life-form. Japan has a lot of giant statues. There’s the Gundam statue in Odaiba, of course, but I’m mainly...
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Naked man found sitting inside locker at Japanese train station
And he didn’t pick a warm city to do it in, either. Because Japan is so dependent on trains for transportation, you’ll find large banks of lockers at every major station. While some are only large...
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Convenience store in Sendai celebrates its foreign workers with a special...
Customers who were curious about the smiling foreign workers ringing up their order at this local konbini can now learn a little bit about what they have in common. A recent study in Japan estimated...
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Park exercising its constitutional right to arm bears. Yagiyama Zoological Park in Sendai City is home to a number of animals from monkeys to Malayan box turtles. And who could forget the big Guinea...
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Samurai, ninja, and anime butlers join dinosaur staff at Tokyo’s “Weird...
Say hello to the future of contact-free check-in. If you’re looking for a weird hotel to stay at in Japan, you can’t go past Hen na Hotel, a chain whose name literally translates to “Weird Hotel”....
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Miyagi senior’s joke bombs so hard it delays a flight for 50 minutes
I’ve had it with these mother%*&#ing jokes on these mothermother%*&#ing planes. As a proud father, I’ve settled into my societal role as a teller of bad jokes. I don’t think enough research...
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Win a room or bed on an overnight boat from Nagoya in ferry’s Boat Gacha...
Feeling lucky and adventurous? Travel gacha capsule machines are becoming a fun and popular way to travel around Japan, with new options like the 5,000 yen (US$34.39) random-desination gacha that gets...
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Hagi no Tsuki, how we love thee: Why you should get your hands on this Tohoku...
Our reporter samples Sendai’s most popular food souvenir for the first time and is overcome by emotion. When I was living in Yamagata City for a couple of years, the city of Sendai and all of its...
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Looks like Slime and tastes mysterious – Taste-testing Japan’s newest Dragon...
Sweet edamame Slimes draw near to our stomachs as Dragon Quest teams up with maker of northeastern Japan’s most famous traditional dessert, In most countries, “Hey, this food looks like slime!”...
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