The Japanese Udon Restaurant That’s Only Open for an Hour
Ten years ago, my first job in New York City was waiting tables at the Prince Street location of Souen, the city’s oldest and best-known macrobiotic restaurant, now closed. Two years later,…
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Masahiro Sakurai Says There Are Too Many Fire Emblem Characters In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Prev Next View AllEven before last month’s DLC was added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the game already had too many Fire Emblem characters! In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the playabl…
Quarantined on a cruise: Gloves and thermometers
VideoAnother 41 people on a cruise ship off the coast of Japan have tested positive for the new coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases on board to 61. Passenger David Abel is one of the…
Egashira 2:50 denied ad revenue for YouTube channel
Last week, Japanese comedian Egashira 2:50 made his YouTube debut, blowing away viewers by writing surprisingly legible Japanese calligraphy with a brush shoved up his butthole. In his first vid…
My Hero Academia creator, publisher make official apologies for controversial character name
Critics say “Maruta Shiga” is a reference to human experimentation in Japan-occupied China. For quite some time now, My Hero Academia has been a near-perfect example of an internationa…
Fujifilm removes promotional video after it causes outrage【Video】
Fujifilm’s recent promotional video for the X100V camera features the work of Tatsuo Suzuki, a Japanese photographer. Suzuki’s portfolio contains a lot of street photography, and this was featur…
Monster girl brothel anime Interspecies Reviewers’ Tokyo TV broadcast cancelled
『異種族レビュアーズ』TOKYO MXでの放送中止について TOKYO MXにて放送中のアニメ『異種族レビュアーズ』は、東京メトロポリタンテレビジョン株式会社の編成上の都合により今後の放送予定が中止となりました。 異種族レビュアーズ製作委員会 —ＴＶアニメ「異種族レビュアーズ」公式 (@isyuzoku) February 07, 2020Regarding the suspension of …
The Abstract, Single-Stroke Paintings of Daigoro Yonekura
Daigoro Yonekura is a Japanese artist who creates abstract paintings that resemble billowing plumes of smoke or ink. In fact, Yonekura’s paintings are, in his own words, an exercise in returning…
Coronavirus hits 10 more Japan cruise passengers with stranded Brits left 'in the dark'
(Image: AFP via Getty Images)Among the ship's passengers are 78 Britons with pictures showing many gathering on the ship's galleries on Wednesday to wave at onlookers and press, some in fac…
Voting for "Pokémon of the Year" opens on Google, to be decided this Pokémon Day
The temperature isn’t changing all that much recently, and the leaves are about the same as before, and that can mean only one thing: Pokémon Day is just around the corner! And every year since …