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For 12 years, Japan has been turning Halloween on its head with "Jimi Halloween," where people dress as hilariously mundane everyday moments instead of flashy costumes. The tradition started in 2014 and has grown into a creative celebration of life's most relatable, awkward situations.
A Japanese teenager made history in 1992 by becoming the youngest swimmer ever to win Olympic gold. Kyoko Iwasaki's come-from-behind victory in Barcelona remains unmatched more than three decades later.
Japan successfully launched a spacecraft on a groundbreaking five-year journey to collect samples from Phobos, one of Mars's two small moons. The mission could unlock secrets about how our solar system formed and whether life could exist beyond Earth.
Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto nailed a clutch high bar routine to lead Japan to gold at the World Gymnastics Championships. His pressure performance secured Japan's 12th consecutive World Championships medal.
Panasonic is turning ordinary windows into power generators with new solar technology that works on glass. The company just moved up production by a whole year to meet growing demand for renewable energy in crowded cities.
A Japanese spacecraft just blasted off on a groundbreaking journey to collect the first-ever samples from a Martian moon and bring them back to Earth. The mission could unlock secrets about how our entire Solar System formed.
Japan just launched a groundbreaking mission to collect the first-ever samples from Phobos, one of Mars's mysterious moons, and bring them home to Earth. The spacecraft will spend years studying the tiny moon before returning with rock samples that could reveal how moons form and even how life begins on planets.
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Japan just launched a groundbreaking mission to bring back samples from Mars' mysterious moon Phobos, potentially unlocking secrets about how life began. In five years, we could finally understand where the Red Planet's two tiny moons came from.
Japan's space agency just launched a groundbreaking mission to collect samples from Mars' moon Phobos and return them to Earth by 2031. If successful, these will be the first samples ever brought back from a moon other than our own.
Nearly 3,000 athletes from 45 countries gathered in Nagoya for Japan's first time hosting the Asian Para Games. The competition runs through Saturday across 18 sports, with Japan's 280-athlete team aiming to shatter their previous medal record.
Japan just launched the most ambitious Mars mission ever attempted, aiming to bring back the first samples from the Red Planet's mysterious moons. The spacecraft will spend three years collecting rocks from Phobos before making the long journey home in 2031.
While tourists snap temple selfies, two dozen American students are learning Japanese grammar and napping on tatami mats in a 120-year-old Kyoto townhouse. Pepperdine University just launched a year-round program that trades surface-level tourism for deep cultural immersion.