A Retro Game Guide To Akihabara
Greetings and welcome back to Akihabara, Tokyo's beloved and sheltered paradise of everything electronic and nerdy. It's me, Marc, Hardcore Gamer's official nerdy guy in Japan. Last ti…
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Kanagawa residents to get test runs with driverless taxis - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
Tokyo-based Robot Taxi Inc. and the Cabinet Office will start a demonstration test of driverless cabs as early as January in Kanagawa Prefecture. In the test in a designated National Strategic S…
HOW TO: Prevent and kill cockroaches | Surviving in Japan: (without much Japanese)
Summer is the "insect season". Even if you are here just for travel, it will be fun to see all sorts of insect killers sold in Japanese supermarkets. With sum…
Nengajo: How to send a Japanese New Years Postcard
Japanese 'nengajo' or New Years greetings cards are a fun and easy means of showing your appreciation to all those people who have helped you navigate the tricky waters of living in a forei…
Japan's job market: IT, part-time labor 'clearly' in short supply, Temp president says- Nikkei Asian Review
TOKYO -- Japanese employers are in hot pursuit of information technology personnel, according to Masamichi Mizuta, president of major temporary staffing agency Temp Holdings. At the same ti…
Conveyor Belt Ramen: A Bowl Of Noodles Flying Directly To You
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3-D printing throws ceramics into a spin | The Japan Times
Cutting-edge 3-D printing technology is changing the dynamics of Japanese ceramics as designers merge the traditional craft with a digital framework in pursuit of aesthetic refinement …
Japan's Monomy wants you to design fashion accessories via smartphone
Monomy is an iOS app that offers an online marketplace for creatives, allowing people to make accessories they like with ease using smartphones. The platform was recently launched by Fun Up, the Toky…
Japan's Rakuten Inc launches cheap smartphone service
TOKYO Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc said it will offer a cut-rate smartphone service for about a third of the monthly fees charged by the country's three dominant operators, ad…
Amusement Parks | The Expat's Guide to Japan
Tokyo and its surroundings are home to more theme and amusement parks than one could ever, as a foreign visitor, imagine. Already the is divided into Tokyo Disney Land and Tokyo Disney Sea, making it…