For more than 40 years, Japanese photographer Hiroh Kikai has taken the portraits of passersby near the Sensoji temple in Tokyo’s Asakusa district.
Using the same camera, and created during a similar…

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Taking a kart for a spin on public roads is a fantasy of pretty much any kart owner—it was mine before my family got rid of its old Briggs & Stratton-powered Tony kart.
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With the recent release of Final Fantasy VII Remake, fans of the original game and newcomers to the series alike have been creating some incredible works inspired by the game.
And now that lineup inc…

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New York (CNN Business) Nintendo revealed on Friday that 160,000 accounts were breached since the beginning of April, by hackers using others' Nintendo Network IDs without permission.
The company ann…

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Not even the coronavirus can stop drinking parties.
By Amelie Marie Nishizawa Apr 25, 2020 3 min readOne cannot simply escape Japan’s 飲 （ の ） み 会 （ かい ） (drinking party) culture.
They even came up wi…

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Sagamihara Central Hospital said some staff took time off after losing access to child care.
Japan has yet to reach the mass infections seen in other developed nations, with just under 12,000 cases a…

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Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli can now be considered household names around the world, but it wasn’t always that way.
For me, the big surprise was that Disney didn’t think digital rights were a big…

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KYODO NEWS - 21 minutes ago - 12:18 | Japan, All, CoronavirusJapanese universities are set to provide students with cash to help them with costs related to taking online classes as the nation grapple…

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(Supplied photo shows the official logo for Pull stay, a game developed by Nito Souji during the past five years of his hikikomori life.)
He had initially only planned to remain a hikikomori for thre…

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his team are likely to extend the state of emergency for the coronavirus in prefectures still struggling to curb the pandemic, sources said Friday.
The emergency declara…

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