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A day after announcing the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics, the head of the International Olympic Committee suggested the competition might be rescheduled at some point before the summer of …
If you’re as big of a fan of Starbucks as you are of traditional Japanese aesthetics, mark your maps. On March 26th, Nagano City’s Shinshu Zenko-ji Nakamise-dori street will see the op…
JAPAN is warning of a mysterious “explosion of coronavirus infections” after previously reporting low infection numbers and insisting the now cancelled Olympics could go ahead. ⚠️ Read our coron…
Over 10 years ago, art director Masashi Kawamura teamed up with Japanese band SOUR to produce a fantastic music video for their song hibi no neiro (“tone of everyday”). Needless to say, this was…
Much in the same way that Digimon can’t truly “die,” the DigiDestined are coming back in a fascinating way. Unlike Last Evolution Kizuna, which is set in 2010 (in keeping with the passage of tim…
To put it simply: Nintendo’s been trying to pass off Digimon as Pokémon and it’s time for the treachery to end. It’s easy enough to understand where that feeling comes from, given the significan…
“This was a big worry for me, personally,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. IOC leaders acknowledge they had been focused on Japan, where the government was taking measures to contain the outbrea…
‘All options on table’ over new date for Tokyo Games: BachLAUSANNE: Olympic chief Thomas Bach says “all options are on the table” over finding a new date to hold the postponed Tokyo Games. Tokyo…
Rescheduled: Tokyo Olympics need sacrifices from all stakeholders: BachLAUSANNE: International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said Wednesday that the postponed Tokyo Games would require “sac…
Despite his revered status among internet engineers – Murai is the Japanese equivalent of “father of the internet” Vint Cerf and has been instrumental in internet development in Japan and across the …
