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Medical visa starts on New Year's Day 2011

Dec 19th, 2010
Posted by katzueno
Japanese government announced to start issuing "Visa for Medical Stay" in Jan 2011 for the foreign tourists who want (& need) to receive medical treatment or medical check-ups in Japan more than 90 days. Read More

A Gemini shooting star caught on camera

Dec 19th, 2010
Posted by katzueno
At the early Wednesday morning of December 15, 2010, Gemini Meteor Shower was coming its peak. Decided to setup the camera and live stream at the last min, we succeeded catching one shooting star on camera live from Japan. Yay.! Read More

YokosoNews Weekly - SYS

Dec 12th, 2010
Posted by katzueno
The weekly live streaming show to talk about what's happening in Japan. In this week, we will visit Indonesia, welcome SYS, an illustrator and manga artist who was the only nominee from Indonesian of International Manga Awards in 2007 Read More

RANxHRC All Star Jam Sayonara Party

Dec 10th, 2010
Posted by katzueno
Hard Rock Cafe Nagoya is closing its door this month. RAN Magazine, Nagoya's English magazine, has been hosting series of events with HRC. YokosoNews will join RAN Magazine and broadcast a live streaming from HRC Nagoya. Read More

Utada Hikaru "Wild Life" will be on Ustream

Dec 6th, 2010
Posted by katzueno
At 7pm on this Wed, Dec 8, 2010, Utada Hikaru, the most influential Japanese singer, will broadcast her last concert on Ustream due to the high demands from oversea fans. Now, the fans from all over the world can witness her last performance live before she will go into indefinite break. Read More

YokosoNews Weekly - Haikugirl

Dec 6th, 2010
Posted by katzueno
Starts at 4pm on Sun, Dec 5 (JST), the weekly live streaming show to talk about what's happening in Japan. In this week, we will feature Ali "Haikugirl", a British blogger in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, and we'll talk about the various ranking of 2010 in Japan. Read More

Best selling Japanese books of 2010

Dec 3rd, 2010
Posted by katzueno
The top 20 selling Japanese books in 2010 are just revealed. The most selling book of Japan happened to be an economics with a baseball twist and anime cover. Read More

The New and Trendy Japanese Words of 2010

Dec 1st, 2010
Posted by katzueno
It's December! The year 2010 is only one month left. People start looking back what happened this year including U-can's New and Trendy Words Awards (ユーキャン・新語・流行語大賞). Let's see how Japanese experts thought what was trendy in 2010. Read More

Japan Post to resume all air parcel services to the US

Nov 30th, 2010
Posted by katzueno
Good news!. Japan Post announced on Nov, 29, 2010 that they will resume all services of the US air parcel on Dec 1, 2010. Now it's time to gather your gifts to the US. Keep up with your holiday spirit. Read More

YokosoNews Weekly - Work, Travel and Ranking

Nov 27th, 2010
Posted by katzueno
Aired at 4pm on Sat Nov, 27 (JST), the weekly live streaming show to talk about what happened in Japan. In this week, the interesting finding about the job, travel. And the most searched words of 2010 in Japan was revealed. Read More