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Hidakawashi Co. President Hiroyoshi Chinzei holds up Japanese paper with a thickness of just 0.02 millimeters in Hidaka, Kochi Prefecture. (Mainichi/Masatoshi Maekawa) HIDAKA, Kochi -- In this ...

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HIDAKA, Kochi -- In this village by the pristine waters of the Niyodo River, a small manufacturer of Japanese paper has won global recognition by successfully using machines to produce the world's ...

Leading Japanese homebuilder Sekisui House is quietly expanding operations in the U.S., bringing new investment and innovation to a home construction sector that is racing to keep pace with demand.

Kyoka Fujimoto, a 27-year-old Japanese who has been living ... Oyrehagen Akselvoll said she will arrange some of the paper cranes in the bedroom of her house, where she lives with her fiance ...

But these cutting edge seats have an unlikely nemesis: toilet paper. Toto, a top Japanese toilet bowl maker, said last week that users should refrain from wiping their seats with toilet paper ...

According to a Good News Network article, Japan has officially launched recycled toilet paper made from used diapers. Yes, ...

China's relations are starting to improve with Japan, India and other countries that former U.S. President Joe Biden courted, ...

Here's why you should not wipe your toilet seat with toilet paper. A Japanese toilet maker has issued a public service announcement (PSA), advising users to refrain from wiping their seats with ...

(Mainichi/Norihisa Ueda) FUKUOKA -- Though cleaning toilet seats with flushable paper at hand sounds easy and convenient, Japanese toilet maker Toto Ltd. is urging consumers not to do so ...

Embodying the phrase “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine,” a public-private partnership has commercialized the ...