Tear-jerking reports from multiple artists as studio, which produced a theatrical anime this year, erases its online presence.
Except for the superstars, anime professionals need a nearly endless sup…

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Tsuchiya Bag Co. has been in business for 50 years, producing a variety of leather pouches and carryalls.
Pictured here is Tsuchiya’s new Otona Randsel line (otona being the Japanese word for “adult”…

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Our Japanese-language writer muses on her own marriage to a French husband and its notable quirks.
As I write this, it’s April 24, which a cursory google tells me is National Pigs in Blankets Day (mm…

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Akitoshi Okamoto, not pictured, has been accused of "fraudulent obstruction of business"An 71-year-old man has been arrested in Tokyo for making 24,000 comp…

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Though the series started in 1991, it’s yet to be dethroned as Japan’s premier magical girl anime/manga franchise, and so there’s a permanent Sailor Moon restaurant opening in Tokyo next month!
Calle…

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The world’s biggest pension fund has sent a shiver through the financial markets by stating it will cease lending shares to those seeking to profit from falling prices.
GPIF, the Japanese public pens…

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This is climate change at work, gradually shifting what a normal season and storm looks like.
Car companies, who are themselves significant contributors to climate change, acknowledge this to varying…

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Senior police official quoted as saying, “I have never heard of this behavior, but it’s sick.”Since August of 2016, Inage Station in Chiba City as been under siege by a man assaulting junior and seni…

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But did you that when visiting someone’s home, it’s considered rude to step on the threshold of the doorway to a tatami room?
Even foreigners might get some serious side-eye if they’re seen doing it,…

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A foreign man living in Japan for the past two decades has aged around fifteen years on a flight returning to his home country.
“I departed a young happening dude, but I arrived back an old unskilled…

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