Four Road Laws in Japan You’ve Probably Broken
Guess how many points using your phone will earn you under the revised Road Traffic Law? According to the Road Traffic Law, you can only ride your bicycle on the sidewalk if you’re under 13, ove…
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NTT Building eSports Facility in Akihabara
By Talicia Marie StewartAkihabara News (Tokyo) — NTT group companies are coming together to build Japan’s first-ever multi-purpose esports facility, fittingly located right in the heart of …
How to safely apprehend a chikan pervert and protect women from being groped on a Japanese train
Helpful guide from a Japanese man who’s stepped in to stop groping on more than one occasion. One person currently drawing attention with a useful guide on how to stop a chikan in their tracks i…
‘One Piece’ Live-Action Series Based On Manga Classic Ordered By Netflix From Tomorrow Studios
Netflix has greenlighted One Piece, a live-action series based on one of the best-selling manga titles of all time. Primetime-Panic Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight…
Netflix Will Expand Its Manga-Inspired Offerings With a Live-Action One Piece Series
Crop of the cover art for One Piece, Vol. 92 Image : VIZ Media LLCNetflix and Tomorrow Studios already have a Cowboy Bebop series on the way, and now they’ve got another project based on a much…
How 'reading the air' keeps Japan running
This is the third story in Gen J, a new BBC Worklife series that spotlights Japan as the country heads into 2020. If you don’t do any of these things, some unfortunate news: you cannot “read the…
Weathering With You Is an Environmental Power Fantasy
In the new anime movie Weathering With You, a teenager named Hina treks up 10 flights to a rooftop where a makeshift shrine sits in a rare beam of sunlight. The movie cuts to Hina falling throug…
Nintendo Switch overtakes 1990s SNES console in sales
Image caption Nintendo Switch (l) and SNES (r)The Nintendo Switch has become the company's third best-selling home console, overtaking the old Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).…
27,000 Women Dumped With Single Tweet
Yusaku Maezawa. Photo: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesGetting dumped sucks. Getting dumped on Twitter sucks even more. Now, imagine getting dumped on Twitter at the same time as 2…
Lab-Grown Heart Muscles Have Been Transplanted Into a Human For The First Time
On Monday, researchers from Japan's Osaka University announced the successful completion of a first-of-its-kind heart transplant. Rather than replacing their patient's e…