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Travelers pick the top three destination restaurants in Japan

Casey Baseel 

Between the country’s natural beauty and historic sites, there are plenty of things to see on a trip to Japan. Eventually, though, you’re going to have to take a break from sightseeing in order to eat, and even then you’re in luck, since Japan is a foodie’s paradise.

But while it’s true that Japan is filled with great restaurants, only one can be at the top of travelers’ dining wish list, as decided by users of travel website Trip Advisor in a recent ranking of where they want to eat in Japan.

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• ¥163.5 billionAmount of unpaid NHK subscription fees that are more than a year overdue, according to the broadcaster
• 58,820Number of centenarians in Japan in 2013, according to a health ministry survey
• 44Consecutive of years that the number of centenarians in Japan has set a record, according to the survey

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• All students at Harvard Business School are now required to take acourse on the cleaning of shinkansen cars.
• A man who lives next door to a preschool in Kobe is suing the facility’s administrators for ¥1 million over noise caused by children.
• The newly released annals of Emperor Hirohito reveal that the monarch “had a penchant for writing creative fairy tales in his childhood.”
• Demographers say the population of metropolitan Tokyo will likely peak at 13.4 million in 2020 before beginning a “steady decline.”

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Japanese court orders Google to halt search harassment

KYODO

The Tokyo District Court on Thursday issued an injunction ordering Google Inc. to remove some Internet search results revealing the name of a man who claims his privacy rights have been infringed upon due to articles hinting he may have been involved in a crime in the past, according to a document obtained by Kyodo News.

Some of the results “infringe personal rights,” Judge Nobuyuki Seki said in the document. “Google, which manages the (Google) search engine, has the obligation to delete them.”

It is likely the first legal decision in Japan ordering the operator of a search engine to remove search results, according to the man’s lawyer.