Foreigners and locals alike have started getting on the juice tonight before entering the alcohol-free zone in Shibuya.
In fact, people will only have to travel around 200 meters from Shibuya Station…

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Worshipping the natural worldToday, Koya-san is part of the sacred pilgrimage routes known as the Kumano Kodo, whose towering cedar and cypress forests, crashing waterfalls and temple-studded peaks a…

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Hong Kong (CNN Business) SoftBank's stock is having its worst week since early August.
The stock is down 1.5% Friday morning, putting SoftBank on pace for its fourth straight day of losses.
SoftBank …

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Along with a fabled octagonal mirror (which plays no part Tuesday's ceremony), they form Japan's royal regalia, or the Three Sacred Treasures.
Emperor Naruhito inherits the imperial regalia at a cere…

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But the Japanese are the best at creating horror games, films, and of course, anime.
There’s a host of horror anime done well enough to inspire the kind of subconscious anxiety that follows you into …

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a system that can recognize you by your voice

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Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Conan O'Brien visited the secret offices of renowned video game creator Hideo Kojima who is behind PlayStation's next big release, Death Stranding.
O'Brien met Kojima at his Tokyo-ba…

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Gaming auteur and famous-friend-haver Hideo Kojima is putting yet another one of his buddies into Death Stranding.
On last night’s Conan, host Conan O’Brien revealed that he went to visit Kojima and …

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— oh, what a delight!”Yukiko soon discovers that the woman’s corpse has somehow attached itself to her own body; doctors cannot pry it loose for fear of tearing Yukiko’s skin.
As the Meiji Restoratio…

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East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond.
Twitter user Hajimerumeru’s mom has been really enjoying Breath of the Wild.
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