Pennywise from It gets a new cutesy chibi look in Japanese figure series
Japan’s Prime 1 Studio is a manufacturer known for their polystone statues (some even full-scale) and high quality figures of characters from popular film and…
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Tired of Zoom Happy Hour? Meet virtually at Roppongi bar’s VR outpost awabar.vr on ambr
If you’ve lived in Tokyo for a while, you may know about awabar, a friendly little standing style bar in Tokyo’s entertainment district of Roppongi….
Japanese Cosplayer’s Pennywise and Other Horror Transformations Will Give You Creepy Cool Chills
Japanese cosplayer wows with awesome horror film costumes from It and Child’s Play Anime and video games have always been two major pillars of cosplaying,…
Japanese AI Automatically Generates Faces of Idols Who Don’t Exist
According to their announcement on June 19th, 2018, Kyoto-based IT startup DataGrid Inc., which specializes in creative applications of AI, as well as developing or…
Employment Agency’s Hi-Tech “Photo Booth” Prints Resume Of Your Future Self
Photo booths in Japan can not only print out photos in various sizes (passport, ID, etc.) and formats (stickers, for example), some of them also…
Japanese Tech School Lets Students And Maids Learn Game Programming Together For Mutual Benefit
Maids are a staple of Japanese otaku subculture, with maid cafes, where maids serve food and drink to guests while treating them like kings, being…
Japan Opens “YouTuber Academy” Training Courses For Elementary School Students
In 2016, Japanese newspaper Mainichi News, reported the results of a poll conducted among fourth grade boys at an elementary school in Osaka that showed…