Nagano Prefecture has won praise for providing foreign residents with disaster information related to powerful Typhoon Hagibis, which tore through the prefecture last month, in multiple languages and…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 12 months ago | 0 comments

Death Stranding officially launched two days ago on PlayStation 4, with a PC version scheduled for next Summer.
Kojima attributed this to their preference for first-person shooter games, whereas Deat…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 12 months ago | 0 comments

In addition to introducing the small Honda E in Europe next year, Honda is working on a second EV for about 2022.
Unfortunately, the $33,000 small EV with a 35.5-kWh pack (offering about 125 miles of…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 12 months ago | 0 comments

Maybe you’re prepping for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) this December, or you have trouble picking up Japanese with coworkers and friends?
If you’re not familiar, Let’s Plays are gami…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 12 months ago | 0 comments

Tokyo events for Monday, November 11 to Sunday, November 17, 2019A magical week where Tokyo celebrates just about anything—autumn leaves, Christmas lights, vegan food, fisherman, design and dance.
To…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 12 months ago | 0 comments

TOKYO -- Japan's northeastern prefecture of Fukushima, devastated during the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster, is looking to transform itself into a renewable energy hub, Nikkei has learned.
A pl…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 12 months ago | 0 comments

Japanese website Iris Pet recently completed its annual survey of Japan’s top cat names, in which 839 respondents gave the names of the collective 1,694 cats they own.
Yuki (meaning “Snow”)No doubt a…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 12 months ago | 0 comments

About The AuthorTraveler, Writer, Photographer, & Terrible Dancer of Everybody Hates A Tourist.
Visited 40+ countries & major territories so far, slowly working his way through the rest.
Rela…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 12 months ago | 0 comments

Officially called the “NI-Tele Really BIG Clock,” four or five times a day this wacked-out symphonic mega-machine spins, dances, whirs and clanks.
The giant clock is in the Shiodome section of Tokyo,…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 12 months ago | 0 comments

Japanese bowls found at the site.
With racism against Japanese Canadians on the rise, says Muckle, the village’s remote location may have provided inhabitants with a sense of security.
It was fueled,…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 12 months ago | 0 comments