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Cat cafes, where patrons pay to hang out with cats, have become huge in Japan and spread around the world since the first one opened in Taiwan in 1998.

The newly-built hotel will offer a restaurant featuring local products and Sendai specialties, and 223 guest rooms, all with free wi-fi and spacious bathrooms with separated toilets.

Kyoto is home to some of the most reputable artisans in Japan, if not the world, and for this installment of HYPEBEAST Road Trips Japan , we visit with one of the most famous weavers in the Nishijin area, the House of HOSOO .

President Benigno S. Aquino III and His Excellency Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, review the honor guards during the Arrival Ceremony at the MalacaA an Palace Grounds for his Official Visit to the Republic of the Philippines on Saturday .

Launch of AbstralA sublingual tablets for Cancer Pain Treatment in Japan Tokyo, Japan, December 11, 2013 -- Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. and Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Inc. announced today that they will launch AbstralA sublingual tablet 100I1 4g, 200I1 4g and 400I1 4g in Japan December 12, 2013.

Shinzo Abe's " Womenomics" policies have been praised near and far, including by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

To celebrate his 34th birthday, Hong Kong actor Raymond Lam was speculated to have chalked up HK$1 million in expenditure on a nine-day holiday to Tokyo and Osaka with girlfriend Karena Ng.

The site has been infiltrated by organized crime. There are horrifying signs of ecological disaster in the Pacific and human health impacts in the U.S. Taro Yamamoto, a Japanese legislator, says the law "represents a coup d'etat" leading to "the recreation of a fascist state."

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.