Popular messaging app Line (LN) said Wednesday it plans to launch an exchange that will allow its more than 170 million users to trade digital currencies via their smartphones.

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Japanese manga artist Kazuo Umezu has won an award at one of Europe's largest comic festivals held in France for a comic featuring a robot that develops emotions, his publisher said Tuesday. The 81-y…

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Researchers say they have found a new seabird species indigenous to the Ogasawara Islands, a UNESCO World Heritage site some 1,000 kilometers south of Japan's main island.

The scientists, including t…

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On June 16th, 2015, a new division within Japanese publishing giant Square Enix posted a short, handwritten message online. “The ‘good old days’ are coming back,” it read. “To every RPG fan in the wo…

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Of all the words that could describe the island paradise that serves as backdrop for Monster Hunter World, the one that keeps coming back to me is “dense.” Electrified insects buzz around the trees w…

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Tokyo police have launched an investigation into a digital exchange that lost cryptocurrency worth more than half a billion dollars to hacking.

Sources close to the investigation told NHK the police …

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The British presence in the European Union is over and Japanese businesses should be aware of the consequences, France’s Foreign Affairs Minister said.

Jean-Yves Le Drian was responding to a question…

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After six years, Japan’s Sakakibara Machinery Works Co. has unveiled its newest giant mecha.

Back in 2005, the company had a mecha rolled out the Landwalker, which could be piloted and fired tennis b…

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In the mind’s eye of many people Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens, serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, books and magazines ar…

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There are plenty of unusual museums in the world -- museums for sex, museums for ice cream, museums for hair. But they all rely on a tried-and-tested formula: presenting (mostly) inanimate objects on…

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