More often than not, when politicians utter "video game" in a sentence, it is usually in a pejorative fashion. Here…
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Launched in June 2009, The Misato Katsuragi News Project had Neon Gensis Evangelion character Misato read the news.
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The Tokyo Metropolitan government is moving forward on legislation that sets out to ban provocative "visual…
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It's been almost four months since a Pokemon game was the bestselling game on Japan's software chart, but Nintendo's…
Yoshio Sakamoto is visiting San Francisco's Game Developers Conference to talk up the latest, he says greatest,…
The Japanese population is shrinking. Birthrates have been dropping for the past two decades, and the country needs…
Won't someone think of the children? The imaginary children? Don't worry, Japanese politicians are.