Matsusaka wagyu is the most expensive beef in the world. It had never been sold outside of Japan — until now

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Grown exclusively in the Mie Prefecture in Japan, Matsusaka cattle are raised so their fat achieves the lowest melting point possible. The finest cuts of Matsusaka wagyu have a melting point of 12 degrees Celsius, 8 degrees lower than Kobe.

1200 tons of fish washed up on a Japanese beach and nobody knows why

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1,200 tons of fish on the coast of Hakodate, Japan.
1,200 tons of fish washed up on the coast of Hakodate, Japan.

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A man blew up his apartment while trying to kill a single cockroach with way too much insecticide, police say

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Insecticide being used to kill a cockroach (left); a room in flames (right).
A 54-year-old man's apartment in Japan exploded after he tried to kill a cockroach with insecticide, according to a report from the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun.

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Cormorant fishing has been a tradition for over 1,300 years. Climate change might spell its end.

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Two men stand in a boat illuminated by fire. The man on the left has his arms raised, holding on to many different ropes connected to the necks of birds in front of the boat.
Youichiro Adachi, a cormorant fishing master known as an usho, holds leashes tied to the necks of cormorants as he prepares for cormorant fishing on the Nagara River in Oze, Seki, Japan.

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The WWII Tokyo firebombing was the deadliest air raid in history, with a death toll exceeding those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Tokyo residents who lost their homes as a result of the U.S. bombings.
One million Japanese people lost their homes after the US bombing of Tokyo during World War II.

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Japanese elders are being left behind to face bear attacks

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A brown bear holds a fish in its mouth while standing on a cliff of rocks and a baby bear crouches next to him
An Ussuri brown bear and a cub eat salmon after catching it from the beach of Sea of Okhotsk near the town of Rausu on Saturday, September 28, 2019, in Hokkaido, Japan.

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The remarkable stories behind 5 iconic photos of the Pearl Harbor attack

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Believed to be the first bomb dropped on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the sneak-attack on Dec. 7, 1941, this picture was found torn to pieces at Yokusuka Base by photographer's mate 2/C Martin J. Shemanski of Plymouth, Pa. One Japanese plane is shown pulling out of a dive near bomb eruption (center) and another the air at upper right.
A Japanese fighter plane drops what's believed to be the first bomb on Pearl Harbor on Dec.

A taxi driver in Tokyo was arrested after being accused of running over a pigeon

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A black taxi in Shinjuku and a perching pigeon.
Ozawa is accused of killing a pigeon intentionally with his car.

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President RFK Jr. and an AI deepfake security crisis headline Saxo Bank's 8 outrageous predictions for 2024

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RFK Jr
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Japan has a glut of 8.5 million akiya, empty 'ghost houses' left to rot. Now Airbnb wants to fill them with tourists.

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Old Japanese house and garden in Genemongama factory, Kyushu region, Arita, Japan on August 23, 2023 in Arita, Japan.
Old Japanese house and garden in Genemongama factory, Kyushu region, Arita, Japan on August 23, 2023 in Arita, Japan.

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