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Once A.J. Styles, Gallows and Anderson and Shinsuke Nakamura made a direct beeline from New Japan Pro Wrestling to WWE in recent months, the writing was on the wall that NJPW was due for a total Amer…
In Japan, workers are turning to robotic suits to help them with heavy-duty tasks. The Panasonic Assist Robot suit makes sense for industrial use as well as for staffers at nursing homes for the…
Sony was late to the vinyl resurgence with a new turntable of its own, and it's going to be later yet with its effort to jump back into pressing records. Nikkei reports that thanks to demand, th…
Shibuya is undergoing a major transformation ahead of the Olympic Games to be hosted in Tokyo in 2020. The huge redevelopment project will reshape the area around Shibuya Station, known to many as a …
Everyone’s excited about the SNES Classic Edition, what with its twee 90s look and fantastic selection of games. But as with its NES predecessor, the Japanese version of the device is significantly d…
Full electric cars are getting a bit more practical these days, so this look at electric cars has interesting results; I’m especially surprised that that people are more curious about diesel eng…
The author of this blog receives photos of people's tattoos containing (mainly Chinese characters) and explains if what they really mean. Some of them are hilarious. I have no idea how people de…
I am not sure how trustworthy a source of information Nigeria Today is. Personally I have a difficulty of trusting anything Nigerian online :) But it is quite cool if some offline shops in Akih…
It’s rare for a Japanese startup to challenge NTT and come out ahead. But that’s exactly what Takehiro Ogita and his team at TownWiFi have accomplished. TownWiFi is a mobile app that automatical…
This lacy façade is made from 5,315 aluminium panels, capable of sliding on hidden rails. It's the frontage of Ginza Place, on a corner of Ginza Crossing, Tokyo's equivalent of Times Square…
