I vividly remember when Final Fantasy VIII came out in February 1999.
It was my first Japanese role-playing game ever.
Revisiting Final Fantasy VIII as an adult, after years of recovering with other …

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Fate/Grand Order, part of the enormous Fate multimedia behemoth, is a Gacha game run by Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment.
When done well, Gacha games make serious profit and provide consis…

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During the Edo Period (1603-1868) of Japan, sushi was between two and four times larger than it is today.
AdvertisementHow Sushi Was Invented If you like sushi, there’s one man given credit for the c…

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This week: return flights to Tokyo for £383 return.
In 2019, Setouchi Sea Planes will expand its scenic flights to several smaller islands and towns via Kodiak 100s.
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Canada qualified as the 20th and final team for the Rugby World Cup after beating Hong Kong 27-10 in the last match of the repechage tournament in Marseille.
They take their place in a tough-looking …

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Next July, as Tokyo prepares for the Summer Olympics to begin, the city will have dozens of self-driving vehicles roaming freely near the venues for the iconic athletics tournament.
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SO&CO has slotted a skinny office building into an alley between two buildings in Tokyo, Japan, which contains five tiny concrete workspaces.
The office block, named the Multi-Tenant Building in …

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Fans of classic Nintendo re-releases got some good news this week, as Nintendo finally released emulated versions of 20 Super NES games as part of its $20-per-year Switch Online service.
Since launch…

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But some adult game makers are discovering there are a few apparent unstated exceptions to this policy.
If Steam still had explicit standards against adult content, Taimanin Asagi is definitely the k…

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(CNN) A new kind of duck-billed dinosaur has been discovered in Japan.
The largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in the country was hiding underneath 72 million-year-old marine deposits in the town of…

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