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There’s usually not much to say about the architecture or interior design at a video game arcade.
Warehouse Kawasaki, though, is a major, and crazy, exception.
About a 10-minute walk from Kawasaki St…

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Next-level knife skills create gorgeous garnishes in all sorts of shapes and designs.
Twitter user @oiri_kitchen is currently satisfying and wowing people online with his master knife skills, thanks …

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Meeting the 14th generation head Tokubei Masuda, MIYAVI observed the process of sake brewing and tasted the product at different stages of its production.
MIYAVI SAKE STANDARD is a pure and elegant r…

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Thanks to the so-called “Underground Temple”, formally called “Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel”, the Tokyo area looked relatively unaffected by the typhoon the day after.
The un…

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The annual event Magical Mirai honors the digital characters from the software company Crypton Future Media, such as Hatsune Miku, Megurine Luka, Kagamine Rin/Len and more.
The live painting was perf…

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Earlier this summer, the JROCK NEWS team headed over to Japan’s largest fan convention, Comiket, a biannual event focused on doujin (self-published) goods.
Our objective was to purchase great doujin …

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The tote bag is fashioned to look like the torso of a Japanese police officer, with some extra strips of fluorescent tape added for visibility.
But the point of the tote bag program isn’t simply to m…

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The latest star to grace the red carpet in Tokyo is none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger, accompanied by the cast of Terminator: Dark Fate, which has been retitled Terminator: New Fate for its Japan…

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”Please forgive us,” says director, while explaining that Smash Bros. is “a game for good little children.”Super Smash Bros.
“We ended up making a lot of different characters, 20 in total,” says Supe…

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