Your Name is a wonderful motion picture, and one of the best anime films I’ve ever seen. It’s also the highest grossing anime ever, which doesn’t validate it as a great film but, at least, will be so…

posted by  Sergey | 8 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments

Scott Strichart has worked on localizing and marketing fan-favorite franchises like Persona, Ni no Kuni and Final Fantasy. These days he’s heading localization efforts for the Yakuza series. We talke…

posted by  Sergey | 8 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments

I grew up eating bugs. When I would visit my grandparents in Yokohama, they used to offer me inago no tsukudani いなごの佃煮　　　　つくだに, rice grasshoppers cooked in soy sauce, as an afternoon snack. At first,…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 3 months ago | 1 comment

In 1950, Japan’s scientific community, chastened by the complicity of researchers in their nation’s disastrous military adventurism, took an extraordinary vow. “To preserve our integrity as scientist…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments

Donald Trump has said that Japan is making it difficult for US automakers to sell their products in Japan.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20170124_23/

It is true that there are few American …

posted by  Yubi | 8 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments

Japan on Tuesday launched its first military communications satellite to boost the broadband capacity of its Self Defence Forces as they reinforce an island chain stretching along the southern edge o…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments

If it looks like a chair and acts like a chair, but has over two million on back order, is it really just any ol’ chair?

Introducing Buddy -the game chair-! This floor chair is expertly designed to …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 3 months ago | 1 comment

Theft and other organized crime by tourists has brought a new problem to shops and trade shoes in Tokyo.

Tokyo police have arrested 3 Chinese people who they suspect are members of the "Pink Panda" c…

posted by  Yubi | 8 years, 3 months ago | 1 comment

When Fastly entered the Japanese market, they quickly discovered that they had change their technology-driven bottom up sales approach to fit Japan’s top-down enterprise market.

Today we sit down wi…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments

If you’re a fan of the sparkly and shiny, and you live in Tokyo, you’re in luck. Two (unrelated) exhibitions that opened in January are bringing a prismatic shine and a microscopic sparkle to Tokyo. …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 3 months ago | 1 comment