Tokyo Skytree has a brilliant light display in store for four days only, and it’s designed to represent three of Japan’s signature dishes: tamago kake gohan (egg with rice), o-nabe (Japanese hot pot), and takikomi gohan (seasoned steamed rice).
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Tokyo Skytree to light up as three traditional Japanese meals in honour of “Washoku Day”
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Oona McGee
Nov 19, 2015 - Tweet
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The Five Most Popular Places to Kill Oneself or The Top Five Places to Save a Life
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Master Blaster
Mar 27, 2013
Japan often gets a reputation as a suicide-heavy nation but the social problem of self-destruction is something all parts of the world have to tackle.
The following is a list of five places in the world where suicides have most often occurred. It’s a bittersweet honor in that they are all either places of extreme natural beauty of impressive feats of engineering.
On the other hand, they are also places and countries that clearly do too little to prevent either the mental illness that leads to suicide of the act itself.
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