Apparently, Japan is covered in magical and irresistibly cute animal sanctuaries. We’ve heard about the bunny island and cat island, but there’s also a fox village, where six different species of fox…

posted by  Yubi | 9 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

Japan is sometimes called the Galapagos Islands of technology—a place where systems evolve in parallel to everywhere else in the world. One area in which this is quite apparent, is bank ATMs. While m…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 3 comments

Hunters have been called in to deal with hundreds of wild boars who are living in evacuated Japanese towns in the Fukushima area.
The area was deserted six years ago after an earthquake and tsunami l…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 2 comments

Suppose that tennis superstar Kei Nishikori serves to you in virtual reality, or a 3-D image of Mashu Baker, a Rio Olympic gold medalist in judo, appears like magic on a stage and powers into action.…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 1 comment

Inside a modest-looking office building in Tokyo lives an unusually clever industrial robot made by the Japanese company Fanuc. Give the robot a task, like picking widgets out of one box and putting …

posted by  Yubi | 9 years, 5 months ago | 3 comments

Who said cakes have do be made of sugar and spice and crap like that? Behold, meat cakes.

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 1 comment

The Nintendo Switch has sold an estimated 330,637 units in its first three days on sale in Japan.

That’s according to Famitsu, which adds that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold an estimate…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 3 comments

There are no shortage of startup accelerators, innovation spaces and startup community hubs, and sometimes it can be difficult to put your finger on what makes one a success and another a failure.

Ti…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 1 comment

In Tokyo, white button-down shirts are about as ubiquitous as the poorly concealed nipples underneath, and, according to a 2013 survey, most folks do not welcome the sight. One might suggest simply l…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 1 comment

Today marks the last day of the life-size Gundam in Tokyo, as it is now going to be dismantled. However, not only are there plans to create a life-size Gundam that walks by 2019 but we are also getti…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 2 comments