Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon for the first time, but the mission didn't go exactly according to plan

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a gold rover rests on the moon surface
An illustration of JAXA's SLIM spacecraft on the moon.

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A Japanese man who made a living from letting people rent him to do absolutely nothing says he now does it for fun

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Shoji Morimoto (right) with a client (left in a cafe in Tokyo.
Shoji Morimoto (right) with a client (left) in a cafe in Tokyo.

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I left America and moved to Japan. It was the best decision I made — I feel like I'm really living life now.

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Cyrus Yongbanthom
Cyrus Yongbanthom.

Cyrus Yongbanthom

I was shocked by all the tiny vehicles I saw in Japan. Here are my top 16 'Kei' vehicles.

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A Diahatsu Canbus
A Diahatsu Canbus "kei" car in Kyoto, Japan

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People are buying cheap, abandoned homes in Japan and living their dreams free of financial burden

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Two men sitting down in the middle of a home renovation in Japan.
Take Kurosawa and Joey Stockermans working on their akiya renovation in Japan.

Courtesy of Take Kurosawa.

A crack was discovered in the cockpit window of a Boeing 737-800 aircraft mid-flight

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An All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing 737-800.
An All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing 737-800.

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$800,000 tuna to be turned into sushi at Michelin-starred restaurant

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Bluefin tunas caught at a tuna farm in Malta.
Bluefin tuna.

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Space photos show Japan's 7.6-magnitude earthquake lifted land out of the sea, extending parts of its coastline by as much as 2 football fields

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two satellite images show a town on a coast with a protruding peninsula and dock before and after new land rises out of the sea
A fishing port on the Noto Peninsula before (left) and after (right) the earthquake, showing new coastal land appeared.

Geospatial Information Authority of Japan/JAXA

The captain of a plane that collided with a Japan Airlines jet said he was cleared for takeoff, but air-traffic-control transcripts tell a different story

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An aerial view shows burnt Japan Airlines' (JAL) Airbus A350 plane after a collision with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan January 3, 2024
The wreckage of the Japan Airlines A350.

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Satellite photos of earthquakes in Japan in 2024 and 2011 show the destruction each left in its aftermath

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Workers stand on a road where a car is stuck on a broken road after an earthquake in Japan
The earthquakes killed dozens, left thousands without power, and destroyed roads and buildings.

REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

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