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An award-winning short film shot in the Mourne Mountains and released last year is being streamed across Japan. Dear Imelda was snapped up by Irish film distribution company Network Ireland ...

Tokyo, April 11 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has found an unlikely friend in a talking doll of Myaku-Myaku, the official mascot of the World Exposition to be held in the ...

Beyond the bright lights of Tokyo or Kyoto lies the smallest and most seldom visited of Japan's four main islands, Shikoku. Here visitors will discover a quieter and more traditional Japan, and a ...

Osaka, Japan (CNN) — At Katsuo-ji Temple, Daruma dolls watch from every corner. They peer between tree branches, cluster around altars, and dot winding pathways, flashes of bright red among the ...

The iconic Japanese dolls range from a couple of inches to several feet in height, and there are thousands of them at the 1,300-year-old temple, located about an hour from downtown Osaka in Minoh ...