You can climb Mt. Fuji only in summer, within a span of around two months. This year's season just started.

posted by  Tanuki | 7 years, 10 months ago | 1 comment

Once A.J. Styles, Gallows and Anderson and Shinsuke Nakamura made a direct beeline from New Japan Pro Wrestling to WWE in recent months, the writing was on the wall that NJPW was due for a total Amer…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 10 months ago | 2 comments

In Japan, workers are turning to robotic suits to help them with heavy-duty tasks. The Panasonic Assist Robot suit makes sense for industrial use as well as for staffers at nursing homes for the elde…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 10 months ago | 1 comment

Sony was late to the vinyl resurgence with a new turntable of its own, and it's going to be later yet with its effort to jump back into pressing records. Nikkei reports that thanks to demand, the per…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 10 months ago | 2 comments

Shibuya is undergoing a major transformation ahead of the Olympic Games to be hosted in Tokyo in 2020. The huge redevelopment project will reshape the area around Shibuya Station, known to many as a …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 10 months ago | 1 comment

Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto has many tourist attractions to offer, from its historic sites to scenic landscapes, and is now adding a new one to its list — the world’s first Starbucks coffee shop…

posted by  Yubi | 7 years, 10 months ago | 1 comment

A shogi board maker is being flooded with orders amid a boom in the traditional board game inspired by teenage prodigy Souta Fujii.

14-year old Fujii set an all-time record for the longest winning st…

posted by  Yubi | 7 years, 10 months ago | 1 comment

Japan's space agency has proposed to a government panel a plan to send Japanese astronauts to the moon after 2025.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA presented the idea to the science min…

posted by  Yubi | 7 years, 10 months ago | 1 comment

Farmers in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, have started shipping square watermelons across the country.

Such watermelons were first developed by farmers in the district of Fudeoka in the city of Ze…

posted by  Yubi | 7 years, 10 months ago | 1 comment

Everyone’s excited about the SNES Classic Edition, what with its twee 90s look and fantastic selection of games. But as with its NES predecessor, the Japanese version of the device is significantly d…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 10 months ago | 2 comments