Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanThe Japanese Slang Everyone Is Talking About Is "Oya-Gacha"The term is based on capsule toy machines and gacha gamesByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 23, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanNeon Signs Have Been Vanishing In Japan For YearsThese days, LEDs light up the night in Tokyo and OsakaByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 21, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanFans Gather To Say Goodbye To A Legendary Sega ArcadeAfter 28 years, Sega Ikebukuro Gigo has closed its doorsByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 21, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanZedd Just Showed The Unfairness Of Japan's Travel BanThe German DJ can enter the country while students and workers still cannotByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 17, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanThe Latest Life-Sized Gundam Is Disappointing Some FansNu Gundam gets a controversial new design for a one-to-one scale statueByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 16, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanNetflix's Kate Did Do Right By Japanese TattooingTattooers get their proper credit at the end of the filmByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 15, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanKeisuke Honda Played Himself In Pro Evo And Wasn't HappyJust because you're good in real life doesn't mean you're good in the gameByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 14, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanThe Nintendo GameCube Turns Twenty TodayThat means that its iconic controller is also celebrating a birthdayByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 14, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanThirty-Six Years Ago Super Mario Bros. Went On Sale In JapanNintendo's series would go on to change the gaming world foreverByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 13, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanThe Japanese Internet Reacts To Netflix's KateMovie critics and fans chime in and give their opinions on the filmByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 13, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanIn Just Two Years, Nintendo Fan Completes Game Boy CollectionTwitter made the process of completing it faster than expectedByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 10, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanThe Meaning Of KawaiiThe Japanese word "kawaii" is much more than simply "cute"ByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 9, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanHundreds Of People Line Up For Pokémon Cards In TokyoEven with a state of emergency Pokémon is still a big drawByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 8, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanSinger and Actor Gackt On Indefinite Hiatus For Vocal DisorderThe Japanese superstar will suspend all entertainment activitiesByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 8, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanNew Pokémon Card Shop Claims To Be The World's LargestThe five-story shop is aimed at both collectors and playersByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 6, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanAfter 15 Years, Bemani Composer TAG Says He's Leaving KonamiThe announcement started trending on Twitter in JapanByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 6, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanBeat Takeshi's Car Attacked By Man With A PickaxPolice arrested the man, who was also carrying a knifeByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 6, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanNintendo Confirms The Obvious: It Won't Be At The Tokyo Game ShowThe Kyoto-based game company has traditionally sat out TGSByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 3, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanJapanese Earthquakes Are Terrifying, Even In VRA Japanese university professor used VR to recreate powerful earthquakesByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 2, 2021
Kotaku EastJapanKotaku EastJapanIt Took 400 Hours To Draw This Attack on Titan FlipbookThe hand-drawn flipbook was also animated into a short anime sequenceByBrian AshcraftPublishedSeptember 2, 2021