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A Japanese school for international students opened at a famous inn in Saga Prefecture on Japan's Kyushu island. Students ...

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Cristiano Ronaldo's mother watched her 14-year-old grandson take his first steps in international football in a sleepy corner ...

Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry ...

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For this Kyoto edition, we independently scoped out more than 350 venues and distilled the list down to the very best of the ...