To put it simply: Nintendo’s been trying to pass off Digimon as Pokémon and it’s time for the treachery to end.
It’s easy enough to understand where that feeling comes from, given the significant imp…

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“This was a big worry for me, personally,” IOC President Thomas Bach said.
IOC leaders acknowledge they had been focused on Japan, where the government was taking measures to contain the outbreak.
IO…

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‘All options on table’ over new date for Tokyo Games: BachLAUSANNE: Olympic chief Thomas Bach says “all options are on the table” over finding a new date to hold the postponed Tokyo Games.
Tokyo 2020…

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Rescheduled: Tokyo Olympics need sacrifices from all stakeholders: BachLAUSANNE: International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said Wednesday that the postponed Tokyo Games would require “sac…

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Despite his revered status among internet engineers – Murai is the Japanese equivalent of “father of the internet” Vint Cerf and has been instrumental in internet development in Japan and across the …

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The survey, from ranking site Goo, put the following question to 500 people: “Which prefecture of Japan do you think has the largest number of pretty locals?” Let’s take a look at the top ten results…

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KYODO NEWS - 19 minutes ago - 12:00 | All, Japan, CoronavirusA government panel of experts on Thursday said new-coronavirus infections in Japan appear highly likely to be "rampant," an assessment pav…

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Positions in IT, Gaming, and Translation among our top picks for jobs you can apply to from overseas this week!
By GaijinPot Blog Mar 26, 2020 1 min readEach week we look through our job database and…

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is on track to become one of the best-selling video games of all time in Japan, according to sales figures released by Famitsu.
The game managed to sell 1.88 million phy…

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The sacred land of the Kamikawa Ainu in Hokkaido offers a peek into the way of life of Japan’s original people.
They weren’t even recognized as Japan’s original inhabitants until April of 2019 when a…

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