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‘A huge loss.’ In remote Nagasaki islands, a rare version of Christianity heads toward extinction
After emerging from cloistered isolation in 1865, following more than 200 years of violent harassment by Japan’s insular ...
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‘A huge loss.’ In remote Nagasaki islands, a rare version of Christianity heads toward extinction
In a special room about the size of a tatami mat is a scroll painting of a kimono-clad Asian woman ... which means father or elderly man in Japanese. Members take turns in the role, presiding ...
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Big surprise in sumo. The sport has a new champion — and he's Japanese
TOKYO — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he's Japanese ... dressed in a formal kimono and bowing as he sat on the floor. ''I will aim to become ...
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Big surprise in sumo. The sport has a new champion — and he's Japanese
TOKYO — (AP) — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he's Japanese ... dressed in a formal kimono and bowing as he sat on the floor.