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A watchmaker, a surgeon, a chef and a diorama artist are sitting around together. Each is a master of their trade and together, they’re attempting to create the world’s smallest bento. One …
The Yakuza series is returning next year, but it is also getting some major changes. But the biggest departure for the series is that it’s now using a turn-based combat system. Yakuza …
The first true post-Kiryu Yakuza game has just been shown off in Tokyo, and Yakuza 7 is changing up more than just its location. It’s absolutely wild—this is a long-running and success…
The “anti-groping” stamps allow those who experience harassment to imprint their attackers with invisible ink and also provide a deterrent to would-be attackers. Reuters 10/50 19 Augus…
Asia-Pacific cities have dominated a ranking of the world’s safest cities, with Tokyo coming in the top spot for the third time in a row. The index ranked 60 cities by various factors inclu…
That's well before a corridor between ice sheets opened up, clearing an inland route south from the Bering land bridge. Stone tools from the site suggest a possible connection between these…
But you'd be wrong in the case of Space School, a series of game-like educational Famicom cartridges Konami designed for Japanese elementary school children in the '80s. Designed …
Here is a photo collection of major events in Japan during the latter half of the Heisei Era. 2005(A rapid commuter train cars derails in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, killing 106 passengers and …
Hayabusa2 is the first to successfully collect underground soil samples from an asteroid and comes ahead of a similar mission planned by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) …
[Supplied photo]They will be placed in Shinjuku's Marunouchi Line station, the Hanzomon Line station in Shibuya, and in the subway at Sendai Station between Aug. 26 and Sept. 17. There are …
