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NARA, Japan -- Nara Park, a free-entry estate famous for its roaming wild deer, is often crowded with international tourists feeding senbei crackers to the animals. But most visitors are day-trippers. [1]

A visit to Farm Restaurant Cuore is not an outing to be undertaken lightly. Even if you live in Hokkaido, serious planning is needed before you set out. [3]

Lopburi is currently hosting the King Narai’s Reign Festival 2024, an event that began on February 9th and is set to run until February 18th. [4]

NARATHIWAT – The Narathiwat Provincial Culture Office has organized a seminar to promote the use of local wisdoms in producing goods with Thai identities for ASEAN markets. [5]

SAPPORO, Japan -- A gin made in Niseko, Hokkaido, has won the top award at an international gin competition, sparking hopes the ski resort can become a year-round tourist hot spot. [6]

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Shigeo Iizuka, who served for 14 years as the head of a group representing families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, died early Saturday morning. He was 83. [7]

TOKYO/OSAKA -- The town of Shimamoto, near Kyoto, is known as the site of a bloody 16th-century samurai battle and as a source of pure water for traditional tea ceremony. These days, however, travelers come for the tipple. [8]

TOKYO -- Made with six Japanese botanicals, namely the cherry blossom (sakura) flower, sakura leaf, sencha tea, gyokuro tea, sansho pepper, and yuzu peel, Suntory Holdings' gin Roku is gaining a global following. [9]

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[1] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2026-02-22 · 53% match

Japan's Nara promotes nighttime activity to change 'day-trip only' image

NARA, Japan -- Nara Park, a free-entry estate famous for its roaming wild deer, is often crowded with international tourists feeding senbei crackers to the animals. But most visitors are day-trippers.

[2] FI yle.fi · 2026-03-12 · 34% match translated from fi

Saamen kieli

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[3] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2025-11-28 · 31% match

At Cuore in Hokkaido, lamb offal plays more than a bit part

A visit to Farm Restaurant Cuore is not an outing to be undertaken lightly. Even if you live in Hokkaido, serious planning is needed before you set out.

[4] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2024-02-11 · 46% match

King Narai’s Reign Festival lights up Lopburi

Lopburi is currently hosting the King Narai’s Reign Festival 2024, an event that began on February 9th and is set to run until February 18th.

[5] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2016-04-09 · 38% match

Narathiwat holds seminar to promote cultural products to ASEAN markets

NARATHIWAT – The Narathiwat Provincial Culture Office has organized a seminar to promote the use of local wisdoms in producing goods with Thai identities for ASEAN markets.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2024-04-28 · 34% match

Niseko gin shows Japanese resort offers more than skiing

SAPPORO, Japan -- A gin made in Niseko, Hokkaido, has won the top award at an international gin competition, sparking hopes the ski resort can become a year-round tourist hot spot.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2021-12-18 · 32% match

Japan's Iizuka, ex-head of North Korea abductee kin group, dies at 83

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Shigeo Iizuka, who served for 14 years as the head of a group representing families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, died early Saturday morning. He was 83.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-02-28 · 32% match

Suntory, Asahi and Kirin face sober reality in Japan

TOKYO/OSAKA -- The town of Shimamoto, near Kyoto, is known as the site of a bloody 16th-century samurai battle and as a source of pure water for traditional tea ceremony. These days, however, travelers come for the tipple.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-03-07 · 32% match

Suntory to double output of gin with Japanese flavor

TOKYO -- Made with six Japanese botanicals, namely the cherry blossom (sakura) flower, sakura leaf, sencha tea, gyokuro tea, sansho pepper, and yuzu peel, Suntory Holdings' gin Roku is gaining a global following.

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-09-14 · 32% match

Suga channels Herbert Hoover with planned tax hike

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades." OpinionSuga channels Herbert Hoover with planned tax hike Japan's next PM has failed to learn from one of the

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