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American Jason Danielson, better known in Japan as “Atsugiri Jason, Ehas captured the public imagination with his hilarious high-energy skits ridiculing the complexities of the Japanese language.
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Rakugo storyteller Sanyutei Ryuraku shares the power of his art with audiences around the world.
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Actor Manzo Nomura explains the subtleties of Japan’s traditional form of comic drama, kyogen.
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Lovable lunatics Gamarjobat have them rolling in the aisles from Georgia to… Peru?
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Who better to ask than manzai-shi Stephen Tetsu!
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Kagura, Japan’s oldest performance art, still has the power to make them laugh.
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The origin of emojis and emoticons, tools we cannot live without when using SNS, may have their roots in early Japanese art.
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Japan’s best-known comedy production line now extends to audiences overseas.
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Offering high power-generation efficiency in a reduced size, ENE-FARM systems are rapidly taking root in Japan.
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A Hokkaido-based construction firm with an innovative concrete-testing product is expanding its operations overseas.
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In the first article of a new series introducing distinctive elements of Japanese cuisine, we feast our eyes on the raw and refined confectionery known as “neri-kiri.
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For the first article in a new series introducing Japan’s thirty-four designated National Parks, we visited volcanic Aso-Kuju on the island of Kyushu.
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