Most 12-year-olds are probably just starting to try drawing their own manga, but this girl is a full-on animator.
Japan has a thing for creating stop-motion animations using figurines, like Ryu from …

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(Reuters) — Japan’s Nintendo said on Wednesday it will officially launch its Switch gaming console in mainland China on December 10 priced 2,099 yuan ($298) with local partner Tencent.
Nintendo plans…

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Last month Japan’s Turbo Granny smashed the Japanese record for her age category and now has her sights set on the world record.
Next I want to beat the world record of 23.18 seconds”.
In 2003 she br…

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Now you can explore the world of virtual reality while stroking the soft body of your favourite character at the same time.
It’s been two years since whacky goods manufacturer Bibi Lab shocked us all…

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A big new commercial for PlayStation Japan, pitched as a music video featuring all the platform’s big holiday games, has a lot of cool animation throughout.
Pity, then, that loads of it is copied—dow…

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Police arrested the president of anime studio Gainax Co on Thursday for allegedly taking nude images of a teenage girl and touching her on the pretext that he was training her for photo shoots as an …

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Onsen or hot springs are such a popular destination in Japan that many communities depend on their famous onsen to spur tourism.
But it’s not just in Japan where natural springs and spas attract visi…

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KYODO NEWS - 2 hours ago - 16:30 | All, JapanPolice arrested the president of anime studio Gainax Co. on Thursday for allegedly taking nude images of a teenage woman and touching her on the pretext t…

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The researchers said they aim to develop the Ebola vaccine to prevent further outbreaks of the deadly hemorrhagic fever in Africa.
Kawaoka developed the new vaccine using an inactivated Ebola virus t…

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On Dec 5, 2019Don’t speak Japanese but want to work in Japan?
Each week we’re looking through our database of jobs in Japan to showcase the top positions that don’t require any Japanese language abil…

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