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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 f…
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 skill…
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 eleg…
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 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…
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 gre…
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…
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…
”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…
And last weekend, it’s where you could find the Pokémon Shirts shop. An even bigger treat for fans, though, was waiting upstairs……where Original Stitch had set up a gallery of all 151 shirt patt…
