This fall, a series of restaurant scandals have been front page news in Japan. Several pricey eateries have admitted to lying about their menus. Establishments Sega owns, it seems, did as well. Yes, Sega runs restaurants in Japan.
Traveling to Japan on a budget? Need a place to stay? Don't mind people having sex all around you? Well, have I got a hotel room for you.
Japan is filled with buildings—many of them are impressive. One Osaka building, however, stands apart. It's not because it's particularly tall or even that beautiful. It has a highway passing through it.
Ever want to open a game bar in Japan? Matt Bloch talks to Japanator about doing just that with his Osaka-based watering hole Space Station. It's apparently the only foreign-run video game bar in Japan!
Land can come at a premium in Japan, especially in big cities. For urban dwellers, sometimes the only option is to build small. Real small.
In the afternoon of March 31, a shooting broke out at game center in Osaka. According to Jiji Press (via The Tokyo Reporter), a former high-level yakuza was grazed in the left part of his chest. He was taken to a local hospital, and he is expected to recover.
Last weekend, Osaka's Den-Den Town, the city's geek district, held a street festival. Previously, Kotaku showcased
As any longtime resident can attest, Japan's subway is punctual, clean, and convenient. Its stations, however, can get elaborate and confusing.
Located in Osaka's Takatsuki, the factory boasts the largest plastic billboard in the world. It's even in the Guinness Book. Dubbed…
On April 30, a 38 year-old Osaka City bureaucrat was arrested for taking upskirt photos of a…
The teacher, Manabu Wakita, was a regular, but he wasn't looking for DVDs or anime goods. He supposedly had something else in mind: trying to snap photos up a woman's skirt.
For many Tokyoites, an evening after work spent in a "neko cafe" (cat cafe) sounds purrfect.
Sometimes cosplay is cool. Sometimes it's sexy. Sometimes it's just really effing strange. Like today.
Yesterday was not only a national holiday in Japan, it was also the eighth annual Nipponbashi Street Festa stamped Osaka.
"I used to be into video games during the PS2 era," Benny Her says, as he buys a green tea espresso at convenience store in Osaka's fashionable youth district, Americamura. "But then I started apprenticing and didn't have any free time."
Actually, this isn't mine. While the kids got their apple pie in nice little bags, I got mine in a Ziploc bag. Apparently, we are out of nice little bags, but have tons of Ziploc bags.
Most maid cafes
After being revealed earlier this year, the PS Vita, Sony's PlayStation Portable successor, finally launched in Japan.
Schoolgirl rocker anime K-On! isn't only getting a feature film, in which the girls travel to London. It's also getting a convenience store. This is it.
Cosplay isn't only about great costumes. It's about hair, amazing hair. The more amazing the hair, the better.
They're big! Yes, yes —we know Universal Studios and Capcom are teaming up
He developed some of the most successful, ground-breaking games ever. But today, game designer Yoshiki Okamoto's personal blog has vanished from the internet. Rumors say so did he.
Life's funny. You start out wanting to be a martial arts master, go on to appear in Hollywood movies, invent Tae Bo, and then decades later, end up with your own Wii game in Japan.
