Japan now has drinkable gamer fuel gelatin, so let’s see if it can power us up【Taste test】

Game Booster promises to replenish energy for smartphone, PC, and console gamers. What’s the most formidable enemy in video gaming? Punch-Out!!’s insanely powerful Mike Tyson? King of Fighters 94’s ridiculously cheap Rugal? Any of a half-dozen Dark Souls bosses who’ve claimed the lives of thousands of controllers thrown into walls in fits of post-defeat rage? […]

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Japanese graphic designer finds his wife’s old notebook doodles, wows the Internet with their quality

The pages are filled with intricate etchings of everything from talk-show guests to Shadow of the Colossus to Coraline. Japanese Twitter user @barusu_xxx is a graphic designer and part-time illustrator, but he primarily uses his Twitter account to share his trips out to local art galleries and smaller, personal illustrations like this nengajo (Japanese New […]

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We visit the “Naples of Japan”, a secret destination tourists don’t know about yet

Enjoy the charm of a Mediterannean-style port town without leaving Japan.  Not many people know that Oita Prefecture, located on the southern island of Kyushu, is home to a remote island so picturesque it’s been dubbed “The Naples of Japan“. Called Hotojima, this tiny island welcomes visitors to its shores with a collection of multi-storey houses built up along […]

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Could Coronavirus be helping prevent the spread of influenza? Japanese Twitter speculates

Maybe the measures people are taking to prevent the spread of Coronavirus are helping protect against the flu, too! As Coronavirus becomes a more serious concern every day, efforts to prevent widespread outbreak in Japan has led to popular conventions being cancelled, tourist spots being shut down, and even a call for schools to close […]

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Japanese company invents a way to let us “drink” potato chips

Can also be used to turn other snack foods into snack drinks. Here are SoraNews24, we’ve got an especially deep respect, and ravenous hunger, for potato chips (especially when they’re covered in matcha chocolate or KFC-flavored). However, even we don’t sit down and eat a bag of chips as a formal meal. Potato chips are at […]

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Perfume fans insult Perfume by being angry at celebrity who didn’t really insult Perfume

Either that or this was sarcasm on an unheard-of scale. On 26 February, the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare issued a message to all organizations and events in Japan, asking them to deeply consider the risks of not cancelling activities in light of the ongoing coronavirus outbreaks. Many heeded the call, leading to school […]

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Weird Japanese vending machine find: Roasted potatoes in both hot and cold varieties

A machine created to help locals with disabilities.  From nappies to edible insects and even origami, there are a lot of weird and wonderful items just waiting to be found at Japanese vending machines. We’ve been on a nationwide hunt to track down some of the nation’s best and most unusual mechanical dispensers recently, which […]

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Australian politician calls for immediate review of all anime due to depictions of “child abuse”

“They contain depictions of wide-eyed children, usually in school uniforms, engaged in explicit sexual activities and poses, and often being sexually abused.” Back when anime was just starting to become available at more-or-less mainstream retailers in the U.S., I remember reading a quote from a scathing newspaper article calling them “perverted sex and violence cartoons.” […]

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Tokyo Disneyland and Disney Sea will close for two weeks because of coronavirus fear

Shut-down goes into effect almost immediately, follows previous request for people with cold-like symptoms to refrain from visiting the parks. Yesterday, the organizers of Anime Japan, Japan’s biggest anime industry convention, said that they were cancelling this year’s event due to concerns about the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, and Tokyo’s Ghibli Museum is currently closed for […]

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Pokémon of the Year results announced, and Pikachu wasn’t even close to winning【Video】

What’s behind the pika-poor showing for the face of the franchise, and also a disappointing finish for Eevee? February 27 was when the original Pokémon Red and Green Game Boy games went on sale back in 1996, and so the date is now known as Pokémon Day. For 2020, though, the day of celebration included […]

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