Understaffing and Japan’s tourism boom are creating openings – even for the inexperienced – in IT engineering jobs for foreigners.
Job titles for engineering positions in Japan include software engin…

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The entire Studio Ghibli catalog, including award-winning and beloved animated titles like My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Spirited Away, will stream exclusively on HBO Max beginning…

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It’s a sense of scale we’ve never seen in Pokémon games before, and it helps really drive home that the top-down, pixel art days are long gone.
There’s no professor to meet, and no grumpy rival that …

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The Major’s back, and looking a bit more three dimensional than you might have hoped.
Netflix has dropped its first look at Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, the upcoming series from Appleseed’s Shinji A…

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By Takuya Okamoto, KYODO NEWS - 7 hours ago - 19:33 | LifestyleTOKYO - Electric vehicles and cars designed for short trips are in the spotlight at the Tokyo Motor Show as automakers face growing pres…

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(Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 13, 2019, shows houses in Nagano, central Japan, submerged after the Chikuma River overflowed due to Typhoon Hagibis.)
(The Chikuma River in Nagano, …

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KYODO NEWS - Oct 16, 2019 - 23:36 | Sports, News, AllTOKYO - The International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday it is planning to move the 2020 Tokyo Olympic women's and men's marathons and race…

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By Annelise Giseburt Oct 16, 2019 9 min readThis article contains spoilers for season one of The Naked Director.
The Naked Director is obsessed with real sex.
And indeed, The Naked Director shows as …

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Tourism taxi driver, freelance writers, and boutique hotel staff among our top picks for this week!
On Oct 21, 2019If you’re looking to work in Japan, check back here each week as we look through our…

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As usual, the big convenience store chains—7-Eleven, Family Mart and Lawson—are releasing a number of scary snacks to celebrate Halloween.
Chocolate Cream DaifukuThe chocolate cream inside has a nice…

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