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Despite the global popularity of anime and video games, it’s hard to pave your way as a professional voice actor (seiyu) in Japan. The recently released March issue of Seiyu Grand Prix Magazine …
Lattice work seen in tea ceremony rooms finally gets to see the city streets. This restyling of old traditions is something that recently inspired one talented Japanese student to realise his ow…
Ququri studio apartments offer just 4.64 square meters (49.94 square feet) of usable floor space, but with prices this low, it’s all some people need. Of course, there are apartments that Japane…
In fact, @meetisai is mostly known on the English-language web for one thing: his meme cats. Face masks are currently in high demand due to the coronavirus outbreak, but this cat’s owner wa…
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“It’s just around the corner!” read the April 1992 issue of Nintendo’s in-house magazine Nintendo Power, in a piece about the SNES CD-ROM drive. AdvertisementThe ‘Play Station’ prototy…
Back in 2008, a Bank of Korea report found that of 5,586 companies older than 200 years in 41 countries, 56% of them were in Japan. In 2019, there were over 33,000 businesses in Japan over a cen…
Poetically translated to “golden joinery,” Kintsugi, or Kintsukuroi, is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery. Rather than rejoin ceramic pieces with a camouflaged adhesiv…
On Feb 13, 2020Each week GaijinPot looks through its database of jobs and selects the best opportunities for finding and securing a career in Japan from overseas. Your main duty will be to teach…
This lack of snow, combined with unusually warm weather, threw some wrenches in the plan for the snow festival organizers. This year, they had to source and tow snow from other towns to create 2…
