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Trash Can Robots Are Now Roaming Japan's Shinjuku Station
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (225+ words) Japan Life News & Opinion Entertainment Technology JR East is testing whether a moving garbage bin can survive one of Tokyo’s busiest and most confusing stations List of Contents: A Trash Can That Comes to You The Shinjuku Stress Test Related…...
MAPPA Turns 15: The History and Evolution of the Anime Giant
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (865+ words) Art & Culture Entertainment Anime & Manga Behind the scenes of the studio that brought you Yuri!!! On Ice, Jujutsu Kaisen and Attack on Titan The Final Season Over the past 15 years, MAPPA has grown from an ambitious startup into an undeniable…...
A Real-Life Backrooms Experience Is Coming to Tokyo
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (53+ words) Things To Do in Tokyo Entertainment Movies & TV The immersive Q Liminal experience brings the internet-born horror phenomenon to Sunshine City for 10 days in September When: September 11–20, 2026 Time: 11 a.m.–6 p.m. (last admission 5:30 p.m.) Where: Sunshine City Exhibition Hall…...
Toyohiro Akiyama, the âFirst Antihero in Space,â Dies at 84
1+ week, 5+ day ago (508+ words) Japan Life News & Opinion The chain-smoking TV journalist who made history in orbit Toyohiro Akiyama, a former journalist and university lecturer who in 1990 became the first Japanese person to travel into space, died on August 26 from lower gastrointestinal bleeding. He…...
Inside Tokyo’s Brand-New Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Theater
1+ week, 5+ day ago (366+ words) Things To Do in Tokyo Entertainment Anime & Manga TW Collabs Super Sailor Moon and the Sailor Guardians come to life If you grew up singing Moonlight Densetsu and play-pretended Sailor Guardians with your friends, your childhood dream is about to…...
Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Project: The 1980s Plan To Build AI
1+ week, 6+ day ago (230+ words) The idea of “artificial intelligence” used to mean a planet-sized computer asking what it means to be conscious. It meant immortal machine civilizations orbiting dead stars. It meant robots who had outlived humanity and spent 10,000 years composing poetry about their…...
Macron's Love of Dragon Ball Scores France a €6 Billion Theme Park Deal
2+ week, 4+ day ago (405+ words) Macron’s Love of Dragon Ball Z Scores France a €6 Billion Theme Park Deal Tokyo Weekender Macron’s Love of Dragon Ball Z Scores France a €6 Billion Theme Park Deal The colossal development will feature three distinct amusement parks, including one expected…...
The Ghost in the Shell (2026) Anime Review: Thereâs a New Major in Town
2+ week, 5+ day ago (185+ words) Entertainment Anime & Manga But now, thanks to the 2026 series from Science Saru that premiered in early July and promised to follow the manga faithfully, we finally got the Major and the world of Ghost in the Shell as first envisioned…...
Disney Sparklink Stars Turns Mickey Mouse and Friends Into Handsome Idols
3+ week, 19+ hour ago (512+ words) Disney Sparklink Stars reimagines your favorite characters as Japanese idols In what feels less like a fairy tale and more like a fever dream, Disney has announced a new mobile game featuring attractive anime versions of Mickey Mouse, Mike Wazowski,…...
A Man Invented a Fake Female Politician Using AI. Then He Made Her Pregnant.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (639+ words) Japan Life News & Opinion There are many things a man might invent for a fictional woman. A name. A face. A political affiliation. Maybe even a personality. The man behind Nakamura Riho went considerably further. He gave her a pregnancy....