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This week, a typhoon hit Japan. It snapped telephone poles in half. It overturned trucks. It killed people.
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It's springtime. And when you say "spring" in Japan, images of cherry blossoms and picnics leap to mind.
This spring, the hot Apple device isn't made from metal, glass or plastic. It's made from paper.
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Sometimes you just get fed up. You think there are no good guys out there. And all you're left doing is wearing…
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In the past, the mainstream media's M.O. has been: If there's a shooting, blame video games; if kids are having…
There are single male geeks. There are female geeks. They'd probably make good couples. But what about when a…
Yakuza: Dead Souls is goofy. It's silly. It's a parody. The game looks like it has borrowed pages from both the Left4…
It's a period of time in nearly every Japanese boy's life. Sometime before preschool starts and shortly after it…
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In 2006, siblings Domu Narita (above, in pink) and his sister Mero pulled out a rare feat: both competed in the…
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