If you think there is no crime in Japan, you are wrong - here's an interactive map of crimes registered by the police in Tokyo. There was a Robbery in Akihabara today!

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Tucked away in a residential area of Tokyo’s Nakameguro district, the Waltz cassette tape shop attracts music lovers from both home and abroad. This “cassette heaven” boasts an inventory of more than…

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A study led by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) has uncovered new ways of driving multi-legged robots by means of a two-level controller. The proposed controller uses a netwo…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 2 months ago | 0 comments

I don’t like earthquakes. In fact, every time I feel one I begin to write my will. After I was recently rudely awoken by my house shaking, I took it upon myself to learn how best to prepare for an ea…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 2 months ago | 0 comments

Unlike in other countries, Japanese homes become valueless over time – but as the population shrinks, can its cities finally learn to slow down and refurb?

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The next time you make a date to catch up with a friend you haven’t seen in a while, don’t go to a ramen shop.

From its humble beginnings as fast food, the Japanese noodle-soup dish has become a glob…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 2 months ago | 0 comments

This is the best news you’ll hear all day: Super Smash Bros. is coming to the Nintendo Switch this year. Nintendo dropped a new teaser for the game, which is as yet untitled, during its Nintendo Dire…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 2 months ago | 0 comments

At the age of 24, Mai Inoue creates paintings that look like they could have been painted by her great grandparents. Her subject matter are bonsai: the Japanese art form of pruning and cultivating sm…

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Getting hired seemed like the tough part.

Then Maho Nishioka showed up for her new job at a Japanese construction site. The workers she supervised refused to talk to her and ignored her instructions.…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 2 months ago | 0 comments

The past five years of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s much-touted “womenomics” measures, aimed at advancing female economic empowerment, have shown clear-cut progress, with about 70 percent of Japanese …

posted by  Yubi | 7 years, 2 months ago | 0 comments