A local government assembly is attempting to shake up Japan’s conservative workplace culture by ending the custom of employing women to serve tea at meetings.
Few official gatherings in Japan have pr…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

Installation view at Wulong Lanba Art Festival, ChinaBorn in Tokyo in 1981, the artist Yusuke Asai (previously) continues to travel the world, creating wild and unrestrained art with whatever canvas …

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

Allyssia Alleyne , CNN Written byRecently, the conversation around cultural appropriation in fashion has been unavoidable.
They were the antithesis of the garments that defined European fashion, whic…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

Every year for decades, scientists at the Hiroshima Prefectural Agriculture Gene Bank have planted a small patch of hattanso rice.
Hiroshima’s rice fields are fecund with Hattanso’s descendants, whic…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

In Death Stranding, you assume the role of Sam Porter Bridges (Reedus), a delivery man working in a postapocalyptic America that has dissolved into scattered communities in underground bunkers and ci…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

Transaction charges and a lack of customer demand mean few shops in his area accept cashless payments, he says.
Part of the reason it’s so stubbornly prevalent, he thinks, is Japan’s tradition of lif…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

But one of the 46-story building’s biggest draws is on the roof, where you’ll find the Shibuya Sky outdoor garden and observation deck.
While Shibuya Sky is open-air, it does have glass walls set up …

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

Image : HikakinTVWhile hoarders have been causing toilet paper sell-outs in Japan, there has been a rumor that popular Japanese YouTuber Hikakin is to blame .
Images like the top screencap were widel…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

I’m happy to report that even given its throwaway origins, Heroes Rising is still worth your time - if you’re a fan already.
Heroes Rising occupies an odd place in continuity.
In the currently airing…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

Residents of a Japanese town which was subjected to evacuation orders following the Fukushima nuclear disaster have been allowed to return as officials partially lift the entry ban.
The town of Futab…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments