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UNESCO World Heritage Sites Under Threat Around the World
This magnificent “lost city of the Incas” is cited by UNESCO as beset by logging, poor waste management and agricultural incursion but hasn’t been placed on its list of sites in danger. This sleepy western Japanese town had “no outstanding universal value,” according to the International Council on Monuments and Sites, which makes recommendations on world heritage sites.
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9 Rude Behaviors You Can Totally Get Away With Abroad
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Radiation From Japan Nuclear Disaster Spreads off U.S. Shores
Decontamination workers wearing protective suits and masks, remove radiated soil and leaves from a forest in Tomioka town, Fukushima prefecture on February 24, 2015. Radiation from Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster has spread off North American shores and contamination is increasing at previously identified sites, although levels are still too low to threaten human or ocean life, scientists said on Thursday. Tests of hundreds of samples of Pacific Ocean water confirmed that Japan’s Fukushima nucle
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10 Wacky Themed Cafés in Japan You Really Have to Visit
By Hayden Field Japan is the world capital of themed cafés and restaurants, offering everything from a Gundam café where guests can eat and drink while expressing their giant robot fandom to a variety of cat cafés where visitors can sip drinks and get their feline fix. Maid cafés are also popular, where visitors are served carefully arranged dishes by young women in maid costumes, as are butler cafés, their counterpart, where young men dress in formal wear to serve (mostly female) guests.
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Reflections on Kyoto
Kyoto (Photo: Moyan Brenn/Flickr) I had been dreaming of Kyoto for 30 years. For my 54th birthday in May. Related: I Spent My 40th Birthday Alone in Japan and It Totally Rocked! Traveling to Kyoto led to three things I found, one thing I lost, and a life lesson. Photo: Gail Wasserman Found: My aesthetic spiritual home.
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That Time My Husband and I Stayed at a Japanese Love Hotel
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11 Hotel Breakfasts Worth Traveling the Globe For
In fact, these hotel restaurants boast prized dishes guests wait in line for — you may even need reservations (for hotel breakfast, people!). Miss Jean Kelly, maitre de of Tradewinds restaurant at Peter Island Resort in the British Virgin Islands, has been perfecting her coconut French toast for so long — almost 40 years! — that it’s become somewhat of a legend on the islands.
