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Underpants! Beer Mugs! Badass Superhero Goes Retail Crazy.

It’s a period of time in nearly every Japanese boy’s life. Sometime before preschool starts and shortly after it ends, kids become enamored with Ultraman. Some never outgrow their fascination with the towering superhero who flies to earth to kick monster butt. I don’t blame them. Ultraman is badass. Ultraman debuted in Japan during the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 13, 2012
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By Brian Ashcraft Published March 13, 2012
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At This Chinese Video Game Bar, You Drink

There are many arcades in China, some are shopping arcades, others are video game arcades. But Arcade, in Shanghai isn’t an arcade in any sense of the word, it is instead a bar. While there are many video game bars in the US and Japan, there aren’t too many in China. There are arcades that…

By Eric Jou Published March 12, 2012
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Junior High Kid Arrested in a Great Condom Caper

Earlier this year, four junior high school students apparently broke into a shuttered love hotel. Love hotels are the Japanese equivalent of “no tell motels”, where couples can meet for trysts. They typically offer complimentary condoms. These four junior high students supposedly stole a huge amount of unused rubbers from a shutdown love hotel. One…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 12, 2012
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Is This the World’s Youngest FPS Player? He’ll Snipe Your Ass. Maybe.

Don’t you hate it when you’re online playing a first-person shooter and the person on the other end that kills you is a young kid. Well, in China, that player could be younger than you’d ever imagine. In a video posted last December, an unnamed 2-and-a-half year-old, is shown playing a Counter Strike clone, Mercenary…

By Eric Jou Published March 12, 2012

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