Yuri Suzuki's Easy Record Maker lets you engrave your own records www.dezeen.com

Created with Japanese publishing and toy company Gakken, the Easy Record Maker has a recording stylus that engraves sounds onto five-inch plastic disks.
"You simply plug in your iPhone, computer, aud…

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Top 5 Post Apocalyptic Anime to Watch While Social Distancing blog.gaijinpot.com

Post-apocalyptic anime, in particular, mirror the times we’re living in with themes centered around the nature of humanity and fragility of human society.
Go ahead and lose yourself in one of these p…

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Overshadowed by pandemic, Japan's ban on indoor smoking goes into effect www.japantimes.co.jp

A law banning indoor smoking in principle took full effect across the nation on Wednesday as part of an effort to protect people from passive smoking going into the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games…

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BBC Studios’ Jodie Comer Drama ‘Thirteen’ Is Being Remade By Japan’s Tokai TV deadline.com

Killing Eve star Jodie Comer’s breakthrough drama Thirteen is being adapted in Japan by Tokai Television Broadcasting, which is also known as Tokai TV.
The format deal represents the first direct agr…

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New recruits' entrance ceremonies affected by coronavirus english.kyodonews.net

(One of the new employees of the Tokyo metropolitan government offices is pictured with a monitor showing Tokyo Gov.
The annual entrance ceremony for new employees was canceled amid the spread of the…

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Hideo Kojima’s company closes office after employee confirmed infected with coronavirus soranews24.com

Video game studio is told it doesn’t have to close, but decides to make worker safety its priority.
Video game creator Hideo Kojima is best known for his love of complex military/political narratives…

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Tokyo Olympics announces new start date following coronavirus postponement soranews24.com

Tokyo’s governor hopes having firm start date will allow athletes and organizers to better focus on preparing for the delayed Games.
Up until the middle of March, organizers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympi…

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Karaoke warning in Tokyo amid calls for Covid-19 state of emergency in Japan www.theguardian.com

“It’s not true that the government is planning on declaring a state of emergency from April 1,” Suga said.
Nishimura said he did not believe Japan had reached the point where a state of emergency was…

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Harsh, blurred and brilliant: the great Daidō Moriyama – in pictures www.theguardian.com

He is one of Japan’s most renowned photographers, a giant of the Provoke movement whose compelling images take a disturbing view of city life and the chaos of existenceAll photographs © Daidō Moriyama

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Learn how to cook staple Japanese dishes with actor Hiro Mizushima【Videos】 soranews24.com

Then why not learn together with Japanese actor and media personality Hiro Mizushima!
Rather, in his videos, he started from the very basics like cooking rice and making traditional Japanese dashi st…

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