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Doesn’t matter how bad things get, Luffy and the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates are always there for one another. Both use your pet’s front legs as the character’s legs, so it’ll look like the an…
Created with Japanese publishing and toy company Gakken, the Easy Record Maker has a recording stylus that engraves sounds onto five-inch plastic disks. "You simply plug in your iPhone…
Post-apocalyptic anime, in particular, mirror the times we’re living in with themes centered around the nature of humanity and fragility of human society. Go ahead and lose yourself in one …
A law banning indoor smoking in principle took full effect across the nation on Wednesday as part of an effort to protect people from passive smoking going into the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games…
Killing Eve star Jodie Comer’s breakthrough drama Thirteen is being adapted in Japan by Tokai Television Broadcasting, which is also known as Tokai TV. The format deal represents the first direc…
(One of the new employees of the Tokyo metropolitan government offices is pictured with a monitor showing Tokyo Gov. The annual entrance ceremony for new employees was canceled amid the spread o…
Video game studio is told it doesn’t have to close, but decides to make worker safety its priority. Video game creator Hideo Kojima is best known for his love of complex military/political narra…
Tokyo’s governor hopes having firm start date will allow athletes and organizers to better focus on preparing for the delayed Games. Up until the middle of March, organizers for the 2020 Tokyo O…
“It’s not true that the government is planning on declaring a state of emergency from April 1,” Suga said. Nishimura said he did not believe Japan had reached the point where a state of emergenc…
He is one of Japan’s most renowned photographers, a giant of the Provoke movement whose compelling images take a disturbing view of city life and the chaos of existenceAll photographs © Daidō Moriyama
