Netflix has greenlighted One Piece, a live-action series based on one of the best-selling manga titles of all time.
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Crop of the cover art for One Piece, Vol.
92 Image : VIZ Media LLCNetflix and Tomorrow Studios already have a Cowboy Bebop series on the way, and now they’ve got another project based on a much-loved…

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This is the third story in Gen J, a new BBC Worklife series that spotlights Japan as the country heads into 2020.
If you don’t do any of these things, some unfortunate news: you cannot “read the air”…

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In the new anime movie Weathering With You, a teenager named Hina treks up 10 flights to a rooftop where a makeshift shrine sits in a rare beam of sunlight.
The movie cuts to Hina falling through the…

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On Monday, researchers from Japan's Osaka University announced the successful completion of a first-of-its-kind heart transplant.
Rather than replacing their patient's entire heart with a new organ, …

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The only cafe in Japan where you can enjoy the company of a capybara, the world’s largest living rodent.
Now there’s a new cat cafe that’s just opened up in Tokyo’s Kichijoji district, and this one i…

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As you can guess, chances to see the Five Swords Under Heaven don’t happen every day.
One is straight-up owned by the Japanese Imperial Family, and three, including Dojigiri, are officially designate…

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Netflix has ordered a live-action show based on One Piece, the colossally popular Japanese manga and anime franchise, as first reported by Deadline.
It’s said to be a ten-episode series from publishe…

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In locations across Japan, these jobs at Rakuten, Amazon, and Line are all open to overseas candidates.
By Marie Meg Jan 30, 2020 1 min readEach week GaijinPot looks through its database of jobs and …

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Fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa invited single women over the age of 20 to apply for a "match-making event".
He still plans to make the trip to space in 2023 - without a partner.
— Yusaku Maezawa (MZ) 前…

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