How To Buy The Animal Crossing Switch Parts Separately, From Japan kotaku.com

Many of the millions of people who already own a Switch are tempted to upgrade just for the new look, but wish they could just buy the accessories separately.
Well, you can—from Nintendo’s Japanese s…

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Eliza Scidmore Photographed Everyday Life in Japan Over 100 Years Ago www.spoon-tamago.com

all photos by Eliza Scidmore courtesy National GeographicEliza Scidmore was a force to be reckoned with.
In the late 1800s to early 1900s she traveled extensively across Asia, writing, photographing …

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Famed Japanese Tuner Now Selling Entire Race-Ready Engines for Nissan Skyline GT-R, Toyota 86 www.thedrive.com

If you're lucky enough to race a Toyota 86, Nissan GT-R, or Skyline GT-R, and you're in need of a pro-built racing engine, you're in luck, because HKS just announced that it's selling ready-built eng…

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Cult classic The Wonderful 101 is getting a Nintendo Switch revival www.theverge.com

And that was never more true than with The Wonderful 101, an offbeat “unite action” game that sees the player recruiting dozens of heroes and bringing them together for powerful touchscreen attacks.

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Mazda Unveils Its First Mass Market Electric Car akihabaranews.com

Mazda (Hiroshima) — Mazda Motor Corporation has unveiled its first mass-production electric vehicle, named Mazda MX-30, at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show.
A new addition to Mazda’s car lineup, the MX-30 i…

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Sanrio turns one of its most popular characters into a zombie for new Tokyo undead haunted house soranews24.com

Pompompurin isn’t quite as cute when he’s hungering for your brains, but you can save him in this mission-based Sanrio Puroland horror event.
Tokyo’s Sanrio Puroland is the place for fans of Hello Ki…

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Why Japan’s #KuToo is Not Really About Shoes www.disruptingjapan.com

I was really wrong.
But it’s important to remember, that whenever you are talking about shoes, you are never really talking about shoes.
When you are talking about shoes, you are never really talking…

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My Hero Academia Author Apologizes for Unintentionally Naming Villain After Japanese War Crime io9.gizmodo.com

All Might faces off against one of the mysterious Nomu in the first season of My Hero Academia’s manga adaptation.
The current arc of Kohei Horikoshi’s smash-hit manga has seen its heroes track down …

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Review: King Jim’s MM-1000 Digital Earplugs akihabaranews.com

At the time we called them noise cancelling earphones and wondered how they would perform being that King Jim isn’t really a known purveyor of quality audio equipment.
We have since spent some time w…

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Interview: TaiKomotion keeps the beat alive for an ancient Japanese art jrocknews.com

For those who are musically inclined or want to learn about Japanese drums, that is now possible with open taiko group, TaiKomotion.
Those wooden percussions are called Taiko (太鼓) drums, and they hav…

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