The collectible cards can sell for hundreds of thousands or even millions of yen (thousands or hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars), and players of the card game can be pretty intense about it.
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The Japanese visual artist Atsushi Adachi creates miniature replicas of objects from the past using old newspaper clippings and articles sourced from the same period.
Artifacts from history like batt…

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image courtesy @shizushin_news | click to enlargeTangerines, satsuma oranges, mandarin oranges, cuties – it seems everyone has their own name for it.
And in Japan, the Mikan – everyone’s favorite fru…

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Three months after Goldman Sachs lent $100 million to Mexican fintech Konfio, SoftBank has invested another $100 million into the financial services company.
The investment confirms Reuters’ August r…

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KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 16:56 | All, JapanJapan's space agency said Tuesday its Hayabusa2 probe is now homeward bound after activating its main engines following completion of its mission to collec…

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Nissan Chief Executive Makoto Uchida speaks during a news conference at the automaker's headquarters in Yokohama, near Tokyo on Dec. 2.
A day after he took up his post, Uchida told reporters he will …

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June brought Zelda and Mario both, in the forms of Cadence of Hyrule and Super Mario Maker 2.
Screenshot : MicrosoftAdvertisementBut just because third-party publishers want to bring their big games …

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Located in Tottori, Japan’s least-populated prefecture, Hot Air Ramen (formally named Tanreitori Ramen Hot Air) is the brainchild of Katsumi Yoshida, a mechanic and car salesman turned cook.
In 2015,…

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Twenty-five years ago, the original PlayStation went on sale for the first time in Japan.
With a lineup led by Ridge Racer and the promise of a 3D future, Sony quickly outpaced Sega and Nintendo and …

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Amazing scenes were witnessed on the 30th of November when AMD officially launched the Ryzen 9 3950X 16 core CPU in the Japanese market.
Entire AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Inventory Sold Out In Jap…

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