Interested in Japanese home cooking? Then why not learn together with Japanese actor and media personality Hiro Mizushima! Mizushima, well-known enough as an actor to make it into the top 10 in a 2017 public survey on Japanese male celebrities who look good with bleached blond hair, started his own cooking YouTube channel last year. […]
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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 narratives and outright weirdness. He’s also directed multiple games, though, in which fictional diseases play a major role, such as the first and […]
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We’d like to add our own stamp of approval to the ones already there. It’s official: The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will not take place this summer, in 2020, but have been postponed until July 23, 2021 out of concern due to the current Covid-19 pandemic. As it’s the first time in history that the games […]
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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 Olympics said the Games would be going on as planned, sticking to the scheduled opening date of July 24. However, with the coronavirus […]
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The cherry blossom trees are in full bloom, but there’s no one around to enjoy them. Prefectural governments in a number of areas around Japan called on people to refrain from going out this past weekend in an effort to help flatten the curve of the local coronavirus outbreak. In Tokyo, Governor Koike held a […]
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Nine rooms of puzzles and a countdown to disaster to get your team’s minds working and pulses racing. No matter what you’re looking for in Tokyo, you can find it in the Shinjuku district. Shopping? Dining? A life-size replica of Godzilla’s head? SoraNews24 headquarters? Yep, all part of the neighborhood. Shinjuku is also where you’ll […]
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Roughly one third of the planet expected to be unable to travel to Japan as part of expanded coronavirus countermeasures. Last week, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs took the unprecedented measure of asking citizens to refrain from any and all non-essential international travel, regardless of which foreign country they might be thinking of going to. […]
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