Why Lafcadio Hearn’s Ghost Stories Still Haunt Us
As lasting as the resulting blindness in that eye was Hearn’s terrible self-consciousness about his disfigured appearance. Somehow, Hearn reached this stranger’s door, where he was handed a…
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The debris-strewn aftermath of typhoon Faxai in Japan
Among those reported dead include an 87-year-old man who was hit by a falling tree in Chiba prefecture, according to the Japan Times. JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images Scaffoldings, hit by t…
Watch Japan's Giant US-2 Amphibious Flying Boat Land In An Amazingly Short Distance
It was the largest amphibious flying boat in production up until China bested it with their AG600 amphibian that first flew in 2017. But that aircraft isn't yet operationally deployed, the …
Panasonic’s modular Toughbook 55 lasts up to 20 hours on a charge
But today the Kadoma, Japan-based company really shook things up with a new flagship — the Toughbook 55, successor to the Toughbook 54 — that’s almost entirely modular. That’s standard stuf…
Empath’s AI detects emotion from your voice
A relatively new entrant in the emotion detection segment is Empath, a Toyko-based startup founded in 2017. A range of products fill out Empath’s suite, including My Mood forecast, an app e…
The Sega Dreamcast Changed My Life
The Sega Dreamcast was released 17 years ago today in the United States. A console defined by experimental games and features far ahead of the curve, it’s fair to say that the Dreamcast changed …
Metroid Cosplay Is Blowing Socks Off
Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag.Click here to view original GIFHere’s Japanese cosplayer 11Vadu with one of, if not the best Samus outfit I have ever seen. The accuracy, the moveme…
Nissan boss quits as Carlos Ghosn pay scandal deepens
The boss of Nissan, Hiroto Saikawa, has quit after admitting he received dubious income, broadening a scandal that led to the arrest of his predecessor Carlos Ghosn last year on charges of financial …
Takeru Shoji Architects designs Japanese home with "live-in foundations"
Takeru Shoji Architects has completed a home in the Japanese city of Uonuma, with small rooms suspended above a double-height living space which sits in a "live-in foundation".…
What Sega’s Dreamcast launch keynote would have looked like, 20 years ago
DreamcastLaunchLivestream — Kyle Orland (@KyleOrl) September 9, 2014Yes, I know there's a typo in here. DreamcastLaunchLivestream — Kyle Orland (@KyleOrl) September 9, 2014I was probably a …