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Netflix has greenlighted One Piece, a live-action series based on one of the best-selling manga titles of all time. Primetime-Panic Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight…
Crop of the cover art for One Piece, Vol. 92 Image : VIZ Media LLCNetflix and Tomorrow Studios already have a Cowboy Bebop series on the way, and now they’ve got another project based on a much…
This is the third story in Gen J, a new BBC Worklife series that spotlights Japan as the country heads into 2020. If you don’t do any of these things, some unfortunate news: you cannot “read the…
In the new anime movie Weathering With You, a teenager named Hina treks up 10 flights to a rooftop where a makeshift shrine sits in a rare beam of sunlight. The movie cuts to Hina falling throug…
Image caption Nintendo Switch (l) and SNES (r)The Nintendo Switch has become the company's third best-selling home console, overtaking the old Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).…
Yusaku Maezawa. Photo: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesGetting dumped sucks. Getting dumped on Twitter sucks even more. Now, imagine getting dumped on Twitter at the same time as 2…
On Monday, researchers from Japan's Osaka University announced the successful completion of a first-of-its-kind heart transplant. Rather than replacing their patient's e…
The only cafe in Japan where you can enjoy the company of a capybara, the world’s largest living rodent. Now there’s a new cat cafe that’s just opened up in Tokyo’s Kichijoji district, and this …
As you can guess, chances to see the Five Swords Under Heaven don’t happen every day. One is straight-up owned by the Japanese Imperial Family, and three, including Dojigiri, are officially…
Netflix has ordered a live-action show based on One Piece, the colossally popular Japanese manga and anime franchise, as first reported by Deadline. It’s said to be a ten-episode serie…
