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New York (CNN Business) Nintendo is going back to the 1990s. On Thursday, it released 20 classic games from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES, to anyone with an online membership.…
(CNN) Japan's National Police Agency has asked the government to pay for more than 100 police officers to guard the country's remote territories, including a group of contested islands that…
Tokyo (CNN) A woman from Southeast Asia has become the first transgender person to receive a long-term residential visa in Japan, according to her lawyer. This special permit is usually awa…
New York (CNN) Video games are increasingly making the jump from console to your pocket. The free-to-play game launched Thursday and brought in 5 million pre-registrations in the …
Jessie Yeung , CNN Written byConstruction has begun on a soaring tower that will become Japan's tallest skyscraper. The ambitious Toranomon-Azabudai project, in central Tokyo, aims to …
The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2019 Safe Cities Index (SCI) has ranked 60 destinations across the world in terms of their digital security, health security, infrastructure and personal safety…
In their conceptual manifesto, "Metabolism 1960: Proposals for a New Urbanism," the Metabolist founders used biological metaphors to call for buildings capable of regeneration. The gro…
(CNN) A Japanese pop star who was stabbed dozens of times by an obsessed fan-turned-stalker is suing the government for not doing enough to protect her. Mayu Tomita filed a lawsuit at …
(CNN) — It's not every day you go shopping for a VIP jumbo jet, but one unique offering is attracting attention online. Boeing 747-400 which has flown 14 Japanese prime ministers and t…
It's all thanks to virtual reality, as well as a team at the University of Tokyo led by Kenta Toshima. A class at the University of Tokyo gives seniors a chance to both watch and create VR …
