Four Japanese national universities plan to apply for a 10 trillion yen ($79 billion) fund established by the government to bring ins ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Mew Mew New Sets Release Date With New Trailer
Tokyo Mew Mew has set a release date for its new reboot anime series with a new trailer! You might have noticed how many major manga and anime projects have been returning in the last year with brand ... ( read original story ...)
‘I’m not a devious villain’: black men in Japan speak out about racial profiling
Some black men, in the country for years, say they are frequently questioned, which humiliates them and potentially damages their reputations; speaking Japanese helps to alleviate the situation. ( read original story ...)
Gakuto Notsuda stunner earns Sanfrecce narrow win over Grampus
The 27-year-old midfielder hit the target in the 58th minute at Edion Stadium Hiroshima, where Sanfrecce held a celebration to honor retired club great Hisato Sato. ( read original story ...)
Japan to Lower Hurdle for Initial Funding for Start-Ups: Nikkei
Japan’s government aims to lift a requirement for entrepreneurs to pledge personal assets as security when raising initial funding for start-ups, the Nikkei newspaper reported. ( read original story ...)
Americans more interested in Crypto than Canadians
According to a new IPSOS survey, Americans are more likely to show an interest in investing or owning Cryptocurrencies than their neighbours across the border in Canada. ( read original story ...)
Testimonial footage of WWII Tokyo air raid survivors, other material to be digitized
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced on May 24 that it will digitize video testimonials by survivors of massive U.S. air raids on Toky ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s horrifying crop of data falsification is also encouraging
The leviathan before me was a solid-steel turbine shaft used in both thermal and nuclear plants — a single component weighing roughly the same as 46 double-decker buses and now, years later, among ... ( read original story ...)
Volcano erupts in Russian Far East, no tsunami threat to Japan
A large-scale volcanic eruption occurred Saturday in the Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, but the Japanese weather agency sa ... ( read original story ...)
The Sacred Cow of Japan
And yet the record of our Japan experts is confused and fantastic. A crosslight can be thrown on “expert” thinking by two quotations from Sumner Welles’s The Time for Decision. On the subject of the ... ( read original story ...)
Why Japan Surrendered
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON was professor of American history at Harvard,the winner of a Pulitzer Prize,the author of THE MARITIME HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS and of the finest life yet written of Columbus when ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese etiquette lesson: Should you fold up your own futon when leaving a ryokan?
Spending a night in a ryokan, or Japanese inn, is a great way to experience a part of the country’s traditional culture. Guestroom design is in keeping with classical aesthetics, with tatami reed ... ( read original story ...)
Terra 2.0 Is Now Live, Following Luna Meltdown. This Week’s Top Bitcoin and Crypto News
Terra 'forks' into new blockchain with a new luna token. Today, terra 2.0 officially went live, less than a month after two linked cryptocurrencies called terraUSD and luna implod ... ( read original story ...)
Modern Health Partners With Tennis Star Naomi Osaka In Effort To Spotlight Mental Health Issue
You weren’t on Twitter for doing well or not doing well,” says Watson, a former Johns Hopkins lacrosse player and the founder and chief executive officer of Modern Health, a mental health resources ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo hotels win hearts and wallets with unique style
TOKYO -- After a building spree in the run-up to the Olympics, the coronavirus pandemic has forced Tokyo hotels to shift focus from quantity to quality, offering more satisfying experiences to ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Is Nobody’s Ally
One of our lending authorities on Far Eastern affairs, OWEN LATTIMORE has spent more than two decades traveling in and writing about China, Japan, and the border territories between China and Russia. ( read original story ...)