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Grade schoolers across Japan carry leather backpacks called “randoseru” (ランドセル). Traditionally, kids have carried…

This week, three Osaka video game bars announced that they were closing. The reason, it seems, was copyright…

Why only collect anime and game figures when you can use them to hold earphones? Recently, fans and retailers alike…

On April 8, legendary video game retailer Games Maya closed, bringing to a close a 35-year history. Some of the…

A Japanese morning show recently did a report on how some kids are doing their homework while playing clips of…

Last year, Kotaku profiled Japanese cosplayer Takaya. His creations aren’t only clever, but also super cheap. He’s…

If you have a hundred thousand bucks you’d like to spend, perhaps you’d be interested in an exoskeleton suit? Even…

The most recent issue of Weekly Famitsu polled 6,678 non-Japanese people, asking their opinions about Japanese video…

In TVXQ’s latest music video, a woman on TV is shown standing in front of a world map that depicts an airplane…

Twitter user Kaboo Factory recently recounted how much Nintendo charged him for first gen Nintendo 3DS parts. It was…