OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--For the first time in four years, the Otsu Festival will be held in its complete format with all 13 floats bearing mechanical puppets from Oct. 7-8. The festival is an ...

OTSU—The centuries-old Otsu Festival, featuring parades of lavishly decorated floats adorned with mechanical puppets, will travel to London on Nov. 30—the first time the event has been held ...

Nicolas Heller, known as New York Nico, and Naomi Otsu, a graphic designer, celebrated their wedding and New York — complete with pastrami sandwiches and his recurring characters. By Sadiba ...

OTSU -- The district court here on May 31 sentenced a father to eight years and six months in prison for sexually abusing his teenage daughter by convincing her that he was possessed by the spirit ...

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Developer e-Smile is bringing Ore ni Hatarakette Iwaretemo Otsu—its PSP dungeon RPG where you’re an unemployed protagonist who gets others to do his work—to PS Vita, the studio announced.

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A complaint by a PTA member at an elementary school in this west Japan city led to the association's dissolution in 2020 and ...

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Built in A.D. 794 on the model of the capitals of ancient China, Kyoto was the imperial capital of Japan from its foundation until the middle of the 19th century. As the centre of Japanese culture for ...

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