This Japanese Wearable Blanket Turns You Into A Cow-Abducting UFO
Japanese retailer Felissimo tends to focus on animal themed goods and novelty items, but their YOU+MORE! series (a play on the pronunciation of “humor” in…
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Did Kizuna Ai Get An Upgrade? No, It’s New Virtual YouTuber YUA!
You’ve probably heard of virtual anime girl and popular YouTuber Kizuna Ai, who has steadily gained a following for her gaming livestreams, vlogs and her…
Cowboy Bebop Director Shinichiro Watanabe’s Blade Runner Anime Short Released On YouTube
Many were pleasantly surprised when Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo director Shinichiro Watanabe would be writing and directing Blade Runner Black Out 2022, an anime…
“Your Name” Studio Makes Original Anime Tourism Commercial For Canada
If you’re an anime fan, or even just a film fan, you probably recognize what considerable praise it is for Makoto Shinkai‘s hit Your Name…
Japanese Slit Drum Inspired By Traditional Garden Ornament Makes Beautiful Otherworldly Sounds
When you think of Japanese instruments, you may be familiar mostly with the koto, shakuhachi, and shamisen, as well as how they can be used…
Cowboy Bebop Director Shinichiro Watanabe Is Directing A Blade Runner Anime Short
Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo director Shinichiro Watanabe will have his hands full in collaborating on the U.S. live-action TV series of Cowboy Bebop, but…
Fascinating Look At How Japanese “Eel Masters” Work 24/7 To Make The Perfect Unagi
It’s often thought that sushi (although which contrary to popular belief, doesn’t actually require any seafood) is thought of to be Japan’s representative fish dish,…
Japan Has A Robot Vendor That Is Very Happy To Give You Ice Cream
Whether it be performing funeral rites, staffing a hotel, or simply being a terrifying poop demon, Japan seems to have a robot for everything. When…
SpongeBob SquarePants As An Anime Is Pretty Dramatic
With a little creative imagination, it’s been shown that talented fans can create some pretty great would-be anime openings, even if they don’t have a…
1,500 Pikachus Invade Yokohama For The Annual Pikachu Festival–This Time With Boats And Blimps!
In what has become an annual event in Yokohama’s Minato Mirai area, the The Pikachu Outbreak Festival runs for nearly a week long (8/9-8/15 this…
Demonic Eyed Japanese Poop Robot That Spews Diarrhea Is The Stuff Of Nightmares
Whether it’s the breathtakingly lifelike fish at Japan’s hotel staffed by robots, or Softbank’s cute domestic-assistant robot Pepper singing Beethoven in a choir, Japan’s constantly…
Footage Shows Abandoned Areas Of Fukushima Being Reclaimed By Nature 7 Years Later
Tetsuro Takehana, a photographer for the Asahi Shinbun, spent 10 years of his childhood in Fukushima Prefecture, recently returned to the region to capture photography…
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…
Tokyo 2020 Olympics Welcomes Akira Comparisons With Projection Mapping Event
Whatever the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Opening Ceremony turns out to be, it would be hard to imagine the proceedings not highlighting the many aspects of…
Japan’s Latest Idol Unit Is A Group Of 60 Miner Mannequins
When it comes to regional promotions, Japanese towns in search of escaping the shadow of the bigger cities in the country and showing off their…