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VIDEO| Virtual Vacation: Osaka, Japan

Osaka has plenty of culture, shopping, activities and food, which make it a great place for a quick getaway.
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'I Miss The Sense of Safety' 15 Weird Things People Noticed After Arriving Back Home From Japan

One of the best reasons to travel is to broaden your mind and gather a variety of life experiences to help better understand the world, its people, and culture.
Photos by Takahiro Takiguchi
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Suprise you taste buds with traditional Japanese sweets

If you have sampled the traditional sweets of Japan, you might have been surprised how different the tastes – and ingredients that include sweet potatoes, sweet beans and rice - are from Western sweets.
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A terrific trip to Thailand

My husband and I settled in for a 12-hour flight to Thailand, eager to leave behind winter in Germany. The plane soared above cloudy Frankfurt, and I saw the sun for the first time in months. As the plane engines hummed, I grew drowsy but never drifted off to sleep.
Photo by Takahiro Takiguchi
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VIDEO| Get your game on in Akihabara

Called Akiba for short, the Akihabara district of Tokyo is known for its hundreds of electronics shops and game arcades.
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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Finding your place in intercultural marriage

Well, I fell in love a few times. Both to Japanese women. The initial “honeymoon phase” was fun, easy, loving and light. The Yin and Yang was perfectly balanced and harmony prevailed. We had a perfect marriage learning to enjoy and joke about our differences.
Harumi Kondo, left, and Eiko Kato, staff members at the Camp Zama Library, hand Elizabeth Brown, 6, a member of Daisy Troop 57, a Hinamatsuri doll for display at the Camp Zama Library, Camp Zama, Japan, Feb. 26, 2020.
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Camp Zama Library displays dolls for Japan’s Girls’ Day celebration

One by one, members of local Girl Scout organizations took traditional Japanese “Hinamatsuri” dolls off a table at the Camp Zama Library here Feb. 26, 2020, and placed them on a seven-tiered display covered with red cloth.
Photo by Tetsuo Nakahara
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VIDEO| Hinamatsuri on March 3 celebrates Japan’s daughters

Hinamatsuri, also called Doll's Day or Girls' Day, is a time when Japanese families display a set of dolls of the emperor and empress in traditional kimono attire.
PENSACOLA, Fla. (Feb. 3, 2017) A Sailor examines the features available on the Center for Language, Regional Expertise and Culture (CLREC) mobile application. The CLREC Navy Global Deployer app is available for download from the iTunes and Google Play online stores. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Taylor L. Jackson/Released)
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Navy’s Global Deployer App updated, new language and cultural data added

The Navy’s Center for Language, Regional Expertise and Culture (CLREC), a directorate of the Center for Information Warfare Training’s (CIWT), released a new version of its Navy Global Deployer application (app) for mobile devices, Feb. 21.
Aki Schucker participates in a class on the Japanese art of flower arrangement, or “ikebana,” at Camp Zama, Japan, Jan. 25, 2020.
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Camp Zama class teaches basics of ‘ikebana,’ the art of Japanese flower arranging

Saori Komura began her class on the Japanese art of flower arranging, known as “ikebana,” with advice she wanted her students to retain long after the class ended.