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  • Tourists take pictures near Japan's Mount Fuji last month.
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    China warns citizens against Japan travel as Taiwan spat escalates
  • A bear attack in a supermarket in Gunma, Japan, on October 7, 2025
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    US State Department warns Americans in Japan: Watch out for bears
  • Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi listens to questions from reporters during a press conference after attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju, South Korea on November 1, 2025.
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    How Japan’s new prime minister has brought China’s ‘wolf warriors’ back out
  • <strong>1. Rosewood Hong Kong:</strong> Designed by Taiwanese designer Tony Chi, this contemporary 413-room hotel came in first place at the World’s 50 Best Hotels list, which was announced at an awards ceremony in London.
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  • Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) soldiers help transport and set up bear traps in Kazuno City, Akita prefecture, on November 5, 2025. Portions of this photo were blurred by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.
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  • Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi elected Japan’s first female leader
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  • <p>We often hear that phrase - you need to see it, to be it. For Tokyo-born Kansei Matsuzawa, he saw it on YouTube - and is now getting ever closer, to being it - in the NFL. The 26-year-old, nicknamed the “Tokyo Toe,"  taught himself how to kick by watching videos online and is now riding high at college as the placekicker on the University of Hawaii football team. He's not missed a field goal in 19 attempts so far this season, and is on the verge of breaking the school's record for most field goals in a single season. Matsuzawa has been speaking to CNN World Sport’s Patrick Snell.</p>
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  • Set cards of AI avatar models generated by Copy Lab are displayed at the company's office on February 21, 2025, in Stockholm, Sweden. Copy Lab is a creative studio at the intersection of art, innovation, and technology. In fashion, AI already makes it possible to generate visualizations on e-commerce sites or tailor-made advertising campaigns at lower cost. If this technology opens up the field of possibilities and gives rise to new professions, its detractors fear that AI will make many professionals  models, makeup artists, photographers  obsolete and warn against artificial and standardized beauty. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • This puffer jacket uses light and sound to lull you to sleep anywhere
  • Asian painters were ‘othered’ in Paris a century ago. Now, the art world is taking note
  • This Tokyo startup is turning discarded kimonos into stylish sneakers
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  • Bad behavior, overcrowded streets: In Asia’s travel hot spots, overtourism is creating European-style problems
  • Yes, you have to get completely naked: What it’s really like to visit a Japanese hot spring
  • Tokyo takes the top spot in ‘world’s coolest’ neighborhood rankings (with London and Chicago close behind)
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