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During our HYPEBEAST Road Trips Japan stay at the stunning Mandarin Oriental in Tokyo, Japan, we took part in a tasting menu at itscelebrated Tapas Molecular Bar , situated in the Oriental Lounge on the 38th floor.

So here it is. It involves a fine beverage, a man who made it his life's works, and a story of enduring love against the odds.) Whiskey first became widely available in Japan in the 19th century, mostly in and after the 1870s, although it seems to have been introduced in the 1850s.

Okonomiyaki are Japanese pancakes, but they're nothing like American flapjacks. Think scallion pancakes, but add cabbage, pork, bonito, nori, fried eggs, and even mayonnaise.

The annual Ethiopian music, dance and cuisine night was organized by Ethiopian in Tokyo.

Japan will set up a new amphibious military unit and deploy unarmed surveillance drones in its southwest, where it faces a row with China over disputed islands, according to drafts of the nation's latest defence plans seen on Wednesday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were named "Asians of the Year" for this year on Wednesday by Singapore's Straits Times , which urged them to reach out to each other to avert a conflict.

Concerned about gang violence, U.S. military leaders on Guam are considering a return to 'shore patrols' on liberty nights following attacks in which deployed Marines and sailors were beaten with baseball bats, pipes, clubs and fists.

Though mentioned only once, Hiroshima and Nagasaki loom large over Nuclear Nation , an assured and sobering documentary that charts the situation in Futaba, Japan, shortly after the 2011 meltdown at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Bass players Sgt. Christopher Williams of the 56th U.S. Army Band, I Corps, and Sgt.

At least now we know the answer to that age-old joke, "How many Nissan Leafs does it take to power an office building?" The answer is a tidy half-dozen.

JAKARTA , Dec. 9 -- _ A Japanese consortium and the Indonesian government on Monday formally terminated a contract under which they cooperated to run an aluminum production company, which was effectively nationalized by Jakarta around two months ago.

The number of Japanese companies willing to consider buying electricity from new providers has jumped from three months ago, a Reuters poll showed, amid uncertainty on the restarting of nuclear energy and after power-sector reforms were approved.

The daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy toured Nagasaki's Atomic Bomb Museum on Tuesday and met with some atomic bomb survivors.

Seismologists have to sort of compartmentalize their emotions about big earthquakes.

Washoku, the traditional cuisine of Japan, is being considered for designation as part of the world's priceless cultural heritage by the UN.

Crown Prince Naruhito and former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda left for South Africa on Monday to attend the funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela.

Marysville Mayor John Gore, right, gives a tour of the city to a delegation from Japan, including Makoto Shimada, left, mayor of Yorii.

Joint Base Lewis-McChord's senior Army general spent the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in a place that once would have seemed unlikely to his late World War II veteran father-in-law.

Last month on the afternoon before the first press day, the bosses of each member of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association stood shoulder to shoulder on the same stage, as the sound of a revving engine from each of their lineups roared in turn.

The maglev train being tested in central Japan could cut travel time between Tokyo and Osaka, or New York to D.C. to one hour.