Almost a decade after its founding, Cool Japan Fund Inc. may be merged with other investment funds or eliminated if it cannot turn around its losses soon. That was a proposal a subcommittee of the ...

Not too many countries can count 'being cool' among their marketable exports. However, Japan is one of the few countries whose pop culture has exploded overseas. Japanese food, fashion, anime, and ...

The central government originally created Cool Japan Fund Inc. in 2013 to support overseas sales of cultural products such as anime and Japanese cuisine, and saw it as a potential winner that ...

Maybe you have Japanese heritage you want to celebrate, or you're adopting a Japanese dog breed like an Akita or Shiba Inu.

Face masks remain ubiquitous in Japan, even outdoors on muggy 35C days ... The current phase concentrates on products that cool individuals rather than environments. The most popular products ...

Although the Cool Japan policy consists mostly of export promotion policies and thus is deeply related to trade policy, its trade-related issues have not been investigated in detail. If Japan is to ...

Now robotics engineers at the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory in Japan have created a janken robot ... against a computerized glove. Not quite as cool, but maybe easier to build.

It gets worse. The room is too big for a single central air conditioning vent to cool adequately. Not far from my desk, there's always a fan running. (Needless to say, 85ºF isn't ideal for working.) ...

Walking in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York, LL COOL J said, "I love this hood, man. Love this neighborhood. Love everything about it. Love the energy. I made a name for myself ...

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