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This is the best news you’ll hear all day: Super Smash Bros. is coming to the Nintendo Switch this year. Nintendo dropped a new teaser for the game, which is as yet untitled, during its Nintendo Dire…
At the age of 24, Mai Inoue creates paintings that look like they could have been painted by her great grandparents. Her subject matter are bonsai: the Japanese art form of pruning and cultivating sm…
Getting hired seemed like the tough part. Then Maho Nishioka showed up for her new job at a Japanese construction site. The workers she supervised refused to talk to her and ignored her instruct…
“I’m standing alone before a complex of danchi. Row upon row of identical numbered buildings extend into the distance. Fluorescent lights flicker to life illuminating the stark concrete.” That’s Toky…
In a nondescript building in Tokyo there is a little-known museum that celebrates on of Japan’s most distinctive crafts: kigumi, or interlocking wooden joints.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) shut down two cryptocurrency exchanges today (March 8), ordering them to suspend operations for a month, as part of a crackdown following the $534 million hack…
JP Smart SIM is a service designed and developed specifically for foreign residents in Japan, meaning that all of the problems you might normally encounter (see above) basically just don’t exist. Apa…
"We haven’t experimented in the low alcohol category before, but it’s an example of how we continue to explore opportunities outside our core areas," said Jorge Garduño, president of Coca…
We were in Tokyo recently and one of the most enjoyable exhibitions was this show of blue and red graphic artworks by designer Haruka Aramaki. Composed of predominantly blue and red – “I feel a neutr…
f you're used to the nomadic work life, the kind where you work from a coffee shop or other shared space, then Japan can be a rough place. Space comes at a premium in Japan, Tokyo especiall…
