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Ishii prefers to see his work “as designing – we add value to the material through the design process”. Designer-craftsman Yamamoto creates objects that filter Japan’s traditional ...

apanese oil and gas company Inpex has begun the front-end engineering design (FEED) process for the Abadi liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Indonesia as the government pushes for its development.

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especially in Japan where forest bathing (“shinrin-yoku”) has long been practiced for its health benefits. While our headline makes dramatic claims about an “ancient forest compound” that “melts belly ...

[Photo by Ye Yilin / for chinadaily.com.cn] Eighty-year-old Chen Feng has voluntarily safeguarded the tombs of ancient Japanese at a cemetery in Fuzhou, Fujian province, for over two decades.