Topic: Japan
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Photos
Photographing Tokyo's Coolest Escalators
Miha Tamura captures the extraordinary side of this everyday ride.
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How You Cross the Street Largely Depends on Where You're From
French pedestrians take more "risks" at crosswalks than the Japanese, says a new study.
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Walk Through a Japanese City Still Abandoned 2 Years After the Tsunami
Google Street View tours a town inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone.
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See Japan Through the Eyes of the Country's Most Famous Anime Artists
A new online pop-culture travel magazine out of San Francisco's Japantown interviews artists about their favorite spots back home.
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Toilet Tuesday
Survey Claims That 75 Percent of People Use Cellphones in the Bathroom
One-quarter of men surveyed also reported sitting down to pee so they could use their phones with both hands.
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Postcard
Japan's Permanently Displaced
2 years after a devastating earthquake, 160,000 are still without housing.
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Videos
Modern-Day Travis Bickle Makes a Sleeve Gun For His iPhone
Ladies, restrain yourselves.
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Knocking Down Huge Buildings Quietly, Floor by Floor
A Japanese construction company turns demolition into energy using something it calls a "big hat."
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Disaster History, Brought to You By Google
On Japan's tsunami-battered coast, a new way to remember the devastation.
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Explore a Japanese City Built From 100 Gingerbread Houses
Take a tour through savory alleys and delicious plazas from a gingerbread man's perspective.
