Sony Establishes $100M COVID-19 Global Relief Fund
Sony Corp said today that it has launched a $100M fund to support those affected by the coronavirus. With the new fund, Sony joins other entertainment and media companies such as Netflix which h…
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SoftBank Says It Won’t Buy WeWork Co-Founder Neumann’s Shares
SoftBank Group Corp. terminated an offer to pay up to $3 billion for shares in office-space provider WeWork, depriving co-founder Adam Neumann of a potential windfall of nearly a billion do…
Japan legendary monster goes viral on hopes for end to epidemic
The story of the half-human, half-fish "amabie" monster was first featured in a 19th century woodblock-printed news sheet from the Edo Period (1603-1868). Quickly d…
SoftBank Group withdraws $3 bil. tender offer plan for WeWork
The Japanese investment giant said it had scrapped part of the rescue scheme as "certain conditions to the tender offer were not satisfied," citing the New York based-company's fa…
Top Jobs in Japan with No Japanese Required – Week 13, 2020
On Apr 2, 2020Don’t speak Japanese but want to work in Japan? Each week we look through our database of jobs in Japan to showcase the top positions that don’t require any Japanese language abili…
Rick and Morty star in epic Samurai & Shogun short for Adult Swim【Video】
Sword fight between Samurai Rick and Ninja Rick results in one of them losing a head. Now, the creative team behind animated science fiction sitcom Rick and Morty have released their own short i…
Persona 5 Royal is the definitive version of an already brilliant RPG
Atlus released Persona 5 — a JRPG about teenage vigilantes with supernatural powers living in Japan — in 2017. Now, it’s created an enhanced version: Persona 5 Royal, a version that addresses th…
The io9 Guide To Gundam
AdvertisementWhen Mobile Suit Gundam first aired in Japan, the only toys available featuring the robots from the show were “Chokogin” die-cast models made by Clover. Chokogin were extremely…
To –san or not to –san? Should you use the Japanese honorific suffix when speaking English?
And yet, often when I hear someone use the Japanese honorific “-san” when speaking English, it feels awkward and superfluous to me. Okay, so we’ve seen there are a couple of legitimate argu…
“Papakatsu”: More and more girls in Japan are turning to sugar daddies to wine and dine them
These girls claim having a middle-aged man pay for their lifestyle is different from compensated dating, but is it really? But those who currently have a sugar daddy say the concept is comp…