Music group Perfume to release actual perfume
Since their 2005 debut, music group Perfume has been steadily pumping out the hits with songs including “Linear Motor Girl” and “Polyrhythm.” Now twelve years later, members Nocchi, A-chan and K…
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Autos of Tokyo Auto Salon 2017
Another gallery of Tokyo Auto Salon photos.
Thinking of starting a business in Japan? Just do it!
Long-term Japan resident and clinical psychologist Marty Roberts, Ph.D says wannabe entrepreneurs should not let fear of inexperience stop them from starting a business. The 39 year-old Rob…
Why CDs are still big in Japan?
In a country renowned for bizarre obsessions, there’s one that boggles most minds. No, it’s not Japan’s dedication to vending machines that dispense everything from canned coffee to panties or bizarr…
Withdrawing Cash from a Japanese ATM with a Foreign Credit Card
Japan is sometimes called the Galapagos Islands of technology—a place where systems evolve in parallel to everywhere else in the world. One area in which this is quite apparent, is bank ATMs. While m…
Fukushima: Wild boars take over Japan's evacuated towns
Hunters have been called in to deal with hundreds of wild boars who are living in evacuated Japanese towns in the Fukushima area. The area was deserted six years ago after an earthquake and tsun…
NTT's VR technology aims to impress at Tokyo Olympics
Suppose that tennis superstar Kei Nishikori serves to you in virtual reality, or a 3-D image of Mashu Baker, a Rio Olympic gold medalist in judo, appears like magic on a stage and powers into ac…
In Japan, "Meat Cakes" Are A Thing
Who said cakes have do be made of sugar and spice and crap like that? Behold, meat cakes.
The First Nintendo Switch Sales Numbers For Japan
The Nintendo Switch has sold an estimated 330,637 units in its first three days on sale in Japan. That’s according to Famitsu, which adds that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold an est…
DisruptingJapan podcast: Japan’s Return Path to Innovation – Tim Rowe
There are no shortage of startup accelerators, innovation spaces and startup community hubs, and sometimes it can be difficult to put your finger on what makes one a success and another a failure.…