Street Fighter Pro And Model Found True Love At An Arcade
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Nintendo has sold over ten million Switch consoles (including Switch Lite) in Japan as of November 3
Nintendo has sold over ten million Switch consoles (including Switch Lite) in Japan as of November 3. On November 15, Pokémon Sword and Shield will be released, so yes, that number will go up!…
Light Up The Night. Tokyo, Japan.
Light Up The Night. Tokyo, Japan. By Adrian Tiu . JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, dro…
Microsoft Japan’s four-day working week trial lead to productivity improvements
Microsoft’s Japanese division found that reducing its working week to four days throughout the month of August caused an increase in productivity and a decrease in costs. Microsoft is not the on…
10 vegetarian foods you can order at almost any Japanese restaurant
So traditionally, there is a lot of vegetarian food in the Japanese diet. You’ll find the following foods at most izakaya and other typical Japanese restaurants. Eggplant/nasu なす (and other…
Geisha selfies banned in Kyoto as foreign tourism boom takes toll
Authorities in Kyoto have banned photography in parts of the city’s main geisha neighbourhood, amid a flurry of complaints about harassment and bad behaviour by foreign tourists in the quest for the …
Xerox to Sell Stake in Joint Venture to Fujifilm for About $2.3 Billion
Xerox Holdings Corp. XRX 3.55% and Fujifilm Holdings Corp. FUJIY 0.49% agreed to end a 57-year-old joint venture more than a year after an attempt at a full merger soured. Xerox has ag…
Japan highland win-win training ground for Filipino interns
"We cannot do farming without technical interns. Labi and other technical interns in the region were earning 821 yen ($7.70) per hour as of September, the minimum wage for Nagano Prefecture…
An ancient way of doing business in Japan
“That is when I realised that [the] tea ceremony isn’t solely about strict adherence to the rules. That was the beginning of the Kyūtō-Ryū tea ceremony. A new-wave of office gathe…
Crowdfunding campaign opens to rebuild fire-ravaged Shuri Castle, raises over 290 million yen
At some point in the pre-dawn hours, a fire had broken out at Okinawa’s Shuri Castle, and photos and video of the blaze showed three of the cultural site’s structures in their final moments befo…