Until yesterday, rare Japanese PC game Labyrinthe, developed by Caravan Interactive, was long thought to be lost forever. That is until the almost mythical third game in the already obscure Horror To…

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And then there were 13,800. That's how many Airbnbs are left operating in all of Japan, after the home-sharing site removed at least 62,000 homes, apartments, and rooms this weekend from its inventor…

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From a piggy bank that demands your cash to a pump-action gun blasting damp toilet roll pellets: Tokyo's toy show has a bewildering array of gadgets to delight both kids and the young-at-heart.

Gone …

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A plan to turn a popular graphic-style novel into an animated television series has hit a dead end after the author's past discriminatory tweets on China and South Korea sparked a controversy.

The an…

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Most US restaurants that require a reservation will allow you to make it online. Few restaurants in Japan have this capacity, however, so you'll need to learn to do so over the phone. It's not as int…

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Tokyo's Akihabara district, a popular spot for Japanese subculture, on Friday marked the 10th anniversary of a stabbing rampage that killed seven and injured 10 others.

A stand for flower offerings w…

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One factor behind the global nihonshu boom is the emergence of new flavor profiles that complement various culinary traditions and appeal to a new breed of sake drinker. Sandō Atsuko reports from Dom…

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The latest major train station in Tokyo will open on the Yamanote Line, the JR railway link that forms a circular loop around the center of the city.

In 2020, the twentieth station in the line will o…

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A 2017 white paper published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries revealed that 15.3% of 1,786 survey respondents ate all of their daily meals alone more than half of the week, whi…

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If you live in Japan or plan on visiting (for the Olympics or any other time), these five locations will allow you to retrace some of James Bond’s globetrotting footsteps here. Since March 2018, Moun…

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