Hong Kong (CNN Business) SoftBank is walking away from a sizeable chunk of its WeWork rescue package, which included a near billion dollar windfall for ousted founder Adam Neumann.
The Japanese tech …

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G-Mode, a company that churned out countless Java-based games for Japanese feature phones in the 2000s and beyond, has announced that it will be releasing some of those games on the Nintendo Switch a…

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To Japanese artists seeking subject matter, sakura (cherry blossoms) have always been there to provide inspiration.
In the Heian period, aristocrats held cherry blossom parties and made outings in se…

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Sony Corp said today that it has launched a $100M fund to support those affected by the coronavirus.
With the new fund, Sony joins other entertainment and media companies such as Netflix which has pl…

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SoftBank Group Corp. terminated an offer to pay up to $3 billion for shares in office-space provider WeWork, depriving co-founder Adam Neumann of a potential windfall of nearly a billion dollars.
Tok…

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The story of the half-human, half-fish "amabie" monster was first featured in a 19th century woodblock-printed news sheet from the Edo Period (1603-1868).
Quickly draw a picture of me and show it to …

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The Japanese investment giant said it had scrapped part of the rescue scheme as "certain conditions to the tender offer were not satisfied," citing the New York based-company's failure to obtain the …

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On Apr 2, 2020Don’t speak Japanese but want to work in Japan?
Each week we look through our database of jobs in Japan to showcase the top positions that don’t require any Japanese language ability.
B…

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Sword fight between Samurai Rick and Ninja Rick results in one of them losing a head.
Now, the creative team behind animated science fiction sitcom Rick and Morty have released their own short inspir…

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Atlus released Persona 5 — a JRPG about teenage vigilantes with supernatural powers living in Japan — in 2017.
Now, it’s created an enhanced version: Persona 5 Royal, a version that addresses the ori…

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