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TOKYO -- Companies in Japan are scrambling to accommodate working parents after nationwide school closures aimed at fighting the coronavirus went into effect on Monday, just days after the …
In brief The Bank of Japan is slowing talk of a digital yen and calls for further international scrutiny on CBDCs. After lawmakers in Japan had initially signaled that the country could move qui…
Since schools in Japan have been closed because of coronavirus, kids might need something to do. And since their parents might not let them go out and about, Weekly Jump is making the digital ve…
Photo : Brian Ashcraft ( Kotaku )Every year, the Tokyo Game Show seems to have a specific theme. One year, there was a plethora of mobile games and another year VR was getting all the buzz.…
ClosingsBunkamura (closed through 3/10)https://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/21_21Design Sight (closed through 3/12)http://www.2121designsight.jp/en/Mori Art Museum (closed through 3/13)https://www.mor…
Gaming desks and chairs are well-refined and engineered marvels. But among serious esports athletes, there's a need for the focus that only a bed can provide. After all, if the ga…
If I got scolded, I’d start to cry, which then made my boss yell ‘You’re a member of working society now. !’ I ran in the back and cried.” (Female, working in a local bank)2. Dealing with c…
For over 100 years, Daiyo has contemplated this relationship, producing a series of handmade Japanese candles, or warousoku, intended to be brought inside the home to supplement our lifestyles. …
When I think about video game beds, I unfortunately still think about this absolutely cursed Kotaku article about a guy who seduced a woman on his Sonic the Hedgehog bed and then wrote about it on th…
Nike has designed basketball and soccer uniforms for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics that it says will be the "most sustainable" and "highest performing" to date. On the medal stand,…
