The object, they say, is to prevent a surge in the numbers of ‘Corona rikon’ (Corona divorce) the new trending phenomenon here in Japan.
The concept of a woman’s realm is still very much alive in Jap…

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Tokyo (CNN) — When Keisuke Arai switched to working from home during the coronavirus pandemic , he began bickering more with his long-term girlfriend.
wondered how couples across Japan were coping un…

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But when you swing a leg over the 2020 Honda CBR1000RR, you go all-in on that history.
Rather, Honda’s motorcycle department swiped the blueprints, locked a handful of bike engineers away in a remote…

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Kotaku East East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond.
Gundam designs are iconic and wonderful, especially the mecha hea…

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Once he was just a junior high kid who drew a Mega Man robot, but now he’s one of the most beloved comic artists in the world.
Capcom’s Mega Man came out for the Famicom/NES in 1987 and quickly estab…

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Tokyo has estimated 4,000 Internet cafe refugees who sleep and eat in the cafe's small cubicles.
However, they are losing the last accommodation as the government has requested to close the cafes to …

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Image : NintendoWhat appears to be an unprecedented trove of information related to several past Nintendo consoles was leaked to the internet starting last Friday.
Many of the thousands of leaked fil…

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The estimated child population in Japan has dropped for the 39th consecutive year to a record low, government data showed Monday, despite efforts to tackle the long-standing issue of a declining birt…

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Fujitsu (Tokyo) — Fujitsu has announced that it was granted Japan’s first private 5G radio station provisional license by the Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications.
As a next step, Fujitsu will establis…

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Line (Tokyo) — LVC Corporation, a subsidiary of Line Corporation and operator of Line’s cryptocurrency and blockchain-related businesses, announces plans to begin trading its digital currency in Japa…

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