KYODO NEWS - 33 minutes ago - 13:27 | Arts, Coronavirus, Japan, AllNational museums in Tokyo and three other areas in Japan reopened Tuesday after three months of closure due to the novel coronavirus…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

On 24 December, a 26-year old woman was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a 16-year old high school boy in Hyogo Prefecture, but has claimed that she merely invited him to her apartment.
But things…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

The premier made the remarks after receiving a proposal in opposition to the shift from Noritoshi Ishida, policy chief of the Komeito party, the coalition partner of Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic P…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

He wasn’t arrested for theft, but he stole her heart, and she gave him even more in return.
In November of last year, officers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Shinjuku Precinct arrested a man in…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

SHOPS, DEPARTMENT STORES, EATERIESUpdate!
Daimaru, Matsuzakaya - Daimaru and Matsuzakaya department stores nationwide have reopened with shortened hours.
Seibu, Sogo - All Seibu and Sogo department s…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

Patlabor began way back in 1988 as a comic set in the near-future where the police battle crime using giant robots.
Like their animated predecessors, the protagonists of the live-action Patlabor pilo…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

One man’s pleasure is another’s pricey poison, as otaku says going to a hostess bar is just paying for stress.
While the outfits may be revealing and the conversations sprinkled with innuendo, techni…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 13:02 | All, Japan, CoronavirusJapan approved Tuesday a polymerase chain reaction coronavirus test using saliva, which is much safer and easier compared to the currently dom…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

the facade of the new museum, which re-opened on May 26, 2020Opened in 1933, the Kyoto Enthronement Memorial Museum of Art would go on to survive a world war and multiple natural disasters to become …

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

However, the setting of My Neighbor Totoro does have a specific real-life inspiration.
A local resident, a man in his 40s, had been feeding stray cats in the forest when he found a skeletonized human…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments