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Airline seat selection fees should be banned. Until then, here’s how to avoid them

Airline seat selection fees are one of the most hated surcharges in the travel industry – and they should be illegal.It costs an airline nothing to reserve your seat. Yet…

June 2, 2023

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What’s the Tokyo Flotation Tank Boom?

“If you encounter something unpleasant, acknowledge its presence; then breathe out to expel it, three times over.” I'm at Cocorodo, one of several floatation tank centers in Tokyo, where owner…

June 1, 2023

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10 Japanese Brands That Have Their Very Own Specialty Museums

in the book There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job, employees bunk off in the rice cracker company's own museum. This got us thinking: which brands actually have their…

May 31, 2023

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9 Japanese Ingredients Perfect for a Vegan Barbecue

When friends invite you to a barbecue, or even when you host yourself, as a vegan, it can be hard to work out what to bring. In Japan, where the…

May 29, 2023

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Memorial Day weekend travel to be extra busy this year

Travelers walk through security at the Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City on Friday, May 19, 2023. | Ryan Sun, Deseret NewsJust getting back to pre-pandemic volumes…

May 24, 2023

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Tokyo Revengers 2 Misses an Opportunity to Be the Perfect Sequel

Tokyo Revengers 2, or technically Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 1, or even more technically, Tokyo Revengers 2 Chi no Halloween Hen: Unmei (Bloody Halloween: Destiny) is a sequel to a…

May 24, 2023

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Air Canada nearly doubles revenue, checks out profit as travel demand takes flight

Air Canada reported that first-quarter revenue nearly doubled compared to a year earlier as travelers hopped back on airplanes en masse — even as higher costs tamped down net earnings.…

May 22, 2023