As "Queer Eye: We're in Japan!"
(Kiko Mizuhara, left, and Naomi Watanabe help the Fab Five navigate Japanese culture and society in the new Netflix series "Queer Eye: We're in Japan!")
(The Fab Five …

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East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond.
Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.
High school students in Japan decided …

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The first trailer for the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie arrived earlier this year, and was immediately met with criticism over Sonic’s appearance.
Paramount Pictures has now released a new tra…

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The findings have been reported in the Japanese media under headlines such as “The bad habits of low earners” and “People on a low income pee in the bath – but why?
Investment consultant Tokio Godo s…

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Paramount/SegaParamount/SegaParamount/SegaParamount/SegaIn early May, the first trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie was released to almost universal criticism .
Instead of the adorable16-bit her…

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Nissan's ProPilot 2.0 will follow a navigation route while allowing the driver to take his hands completely off the steering wheel in some situations.
Like Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot , Nissan's sy…

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In the background are a handful of sunflowers and, woven through them, a spatter of morning glories.
In a wave of nostalgic, nationalistic sentiment, social clubs devoted to raising mutant morning gl…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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