Imperial Palace reopens to public after 2-month closure
KYODO NEWS - 3 hours ago - 10:45 | All, Japan, CoronavirusThe East Gardens of the Imperial Palace grounds reopened Tuesday to the public after a closure of about two months due to the novel…
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Manga artist raises question online about false perspective in Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro
In a one-point perspective drawing, imaginary vanishing lines along an object recede to one vanishing point on an imaginary horizon line (in this case, think “eye-level line”) in the distan…
National museums in Japan reopen after 3-month closure over virus
KYODO NEWS - 33 minutes ago - 13:27 | Arts, Coronavirus, Japan, AllNational museums in Tokyo and three other areas in Japan reopened Tuesday after three months of closure due to the novel c…
Japanese 26-year old single mother arrested for inviting underage high school boy home
On 24 December, a 26-year old woman was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a 16-year old high school boy in Hyogo Prefecture, but has claimed that she merely invited him to her apartment.…
Japan to forgo shift to Sept. start of school year from 2021
The premier made the remarks after receiving a proposal in opposition to the shift from Noritoshi Ishida, policy chief of the Komeito party, the coalition partner of Abe's ruling Liberal Democra…
23-year-old Tokyo policewoman falls in movie-style love with yakuza member, real life ensues
He wasn’t arrested for theft, but he stole her heart, and she gave him even more in return. In November of last year, officers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Shinjuku Precinct arrested a m…
Coronavirus: Updates on major shops, facilities as economy reopens in Japan
SHOPS, DEPARTMENT STORES, EATERIESUpdate! Daimaru, Matsuzakaya - Daimaru and Matsuzakaya department stores nationwide have reopened with shortened hours. Seibu, Sogo - All Seibu a…
Giant Patlabor robot stands tall in Tokyo even as film’s director calls it “useless” 【Photos】
Patlabor began way back in 1988 as a comic set in the near-future where the police battle crime using giant robots. Like their animated predecessors, the protagonists of the live-actio…
Why going to a hostess bar in Japan can be a huge waste of money for otaku
One man’s pleasure is another’s pricey poison, as otaku says going to a hostess bar is just paying for stress. While the outfits may be revealing and the conversations sprinkled with innuendo, t…
Japan approves safer, easier PCR virus test using saliva
KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 13:02 | All, Japan, CoronavirusJapan approved Tuesday a polymerase chain reaction coronavirus test using saliva, which is much safer and easier compared to the cur…