Just a few weeks ago, we introduced you to the awesome stylings of the Twin Chef rice cooker, a nifty new kitchen gadget from Japan that lets you cook curry and rice simultaneously at the push of a b…

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On March 15, 2013, the Shibuya Station Toyoko Line above-ground train quietly shut down for good, to be replaced with a new section of subway track connecting Shibuya Station and the nearby Daikanyam…

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The number of deadly accidents caused by the elderly dropped 59 from 2018, according to the National Police Agency.
The number of fatal traffic accidents per 100,000 license holders aged 75 or older …

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Image : ASCIIFor years now, the live-action Akira film has languished in development hell.
The project has cycled through a handful of directors, but the current attached director, Taika Waititi, now…

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Released in Japan this past December, the soft reboot of Sega’s long-running steampunk mecha series, simply titled Sakura Wars, is set to release on PlayStation 4 on April 28.
It’s Sakura Wars, and S…

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Back in the less-wild, more lawful days of region locking, a new game featuring virtual songstress Hatsune Miku coming out on a Nintendo system in Japan meant a run on import shops.
But the Switch is…

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Kitano now leads a new effort at Sony, announced in November, to infuse cutting-edge AI across the company.
Kitano says Sony believes AI is making such rapid progress that the company needed to make …

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Nintendo, the company behind such gaming classics as Mario, Zelda, and the Metroid series, has just given a whole new meaning to the on-the-go feature of their hybrid Nintendo Switch console.
The Jap…

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should prepare to issue digital currencies and propose bringing up the topic at this year’s G7 meetings to counter China’s move toward issuing a digital yuan, a group of rulin…

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should create its own yen digital currency, hopefully “within two to three years”, and include such plan in government’s mid-year key policy guidelines, a senior ruling party …

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