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The flame is supposed to travel through all of Japan’s 47 prefectures before arriving in Tokyo for the July 23 Opening Ceremonies.

Shortly after the TV series completed airing, the manga ended an 11-year-streak held by One Piece to become Japan’s best-selling manga of the year in 2019, according to the Oricon chart.

The senator singles out Japan as a place that could buy more American goods, and points to Malaysia and Vietnam as having labor forces that could produce these goods at competitive prices.

Former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was the driving force behind Japan’s Games, resigned last year because of poor health.

The 84-year-old Kawabuchi played soccer for Japan in the 1964 Olympics and now heads the athletes’ village for the Games.

In Japan, one woman said she liked the experience of marrying herself as an exercise in pampering.

It happened on Glee and in Sex and The City, and now in Japan women can marry themselves.

When the U.S. went to war with Japan, American movies disappeared.

What started as a confectionary is now the oldest know restaurant in Japan.

Further, unlike leagues in Japan, South Korea or Mexico, there are no foreign players.

I shipped for a voyage to Japan and China, and spent several more years trying to penetrate the forbidden fastnesses of Tibet.

Fujiyama, the noted volcano of Japan, is twelve thousand three hundred and sixty-five feet high.

The embassy for Japan—with a gift, which shall not seem an acknowledgment—you say, could not be sent off last year, which is well.

The trench mortars—bomb guns they call them—will be ready in Japan in two and a half months' time.

Now we're saddled with about thirty thousand of them, and more coming on every steamer from Honolulu and Japan.