Tokyo Disney resorts to raise ticket prices in April
KYODO NEWS - 3 hours ago - 20:01 | All, JapanTokyo Disneyland and DisneySea will raise the prices of their one-day passports on April 1, operator Oriental Land Co. said Thursday. …
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Chadwick Boseman To Play African Samurai ‘Yasuke’ In Deal With Picturestart, De Luca Productions, Solipsist & X●ception Content
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from playing the African warrior king Black Panther in Avengers: Endgame, Chadwick Boseman has officially aligned himself to play Yasuke, the first African samurai to swing a sword i…
Japanese Billionaire Decides He Doesn't Need a Girlfriend to Visit the Moon
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has pulled out of a reality TV show designed to find a female partner for his journey to the Moon. The 44-year-old entrepreneur was revealed in Sept…
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).…
What Pokémon can teach us about conservation and climate change
But it’s also one of the first times that Pokémon, the most lucrative media franchise of all time, addressed the climate crisis. Today, there are eight generations of Pokémon games and, dependin…
Data shows Fukui Prefecture may be the best place to live in Japan, but survey results differ
A non-profit study sought to determine the best Japanese prefecture to live in, but found interesting discrepancies. Japan is an awesome place to live, with beautiful countryside scenery, d…
Sakura begin to bloom in Japan as early cherry blossom season forecast for 2020
Every time spring rolls around in Japan, people start looking up towards the trees in anticipation of that great harbinger of the season, the cherry blossoms. Each year, the sakura bloom on diff…
NEC receives major cyberattacks, defense data theft suspected
KYODO NEWS - 2 hours ago - 01:19 | All, JapanNEC Corp. received major cyberattacks possibly involving Chinese hackers over several years through 2018, with some 28,000 data files including …
Immerse Yourself in Time at Miya Ando’s Solo Exhibition at Asia Society Texas
The artist Miya Ando’s solo exhibition at Asia Society Texas encompasses numerous sections of the Yoshio Taniguchi-designed building. “Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form” is comprised of …
Nintendo Switch has sold over 52 million units worldwide, overtaking the SNES
That resulted in 262.93 billion yen ($2.41 billion) of operating profit, which was also up from 220.029 billion yen ($2.02 billion). Of the 17.74 million units sold in the past nine months, 12.5…