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Citizen science usually isn’t this personal. In 2011, roughly 65,000 Japanese citizens living near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant started measuring their own radiation exposure in…
The new main menu features characters and recreates eating scenes from nine different series including Mobile Suit Gundam, the very first series, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, and the currently ongoing…
Are you excited to be planning an epic tour across Japan in the coming months? Or perhaps you’re already an expert in one region of the country and are thinking of exploring some new areas. Either wa…
Sumo is generally considered Japan’s national sport. There are currently three other yokozuna-ranked wrestlers active in sumo — Kakuryu, Harumafuji and Hakuho — all of whom were born in Mongolia…
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…
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 …
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,…
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…
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…
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…
