[Tourism] Japanese Government assistance

Sources of the wildest rumors and dreams since April, the Japanese government announces that it wants to revive tourism in Japan. With an estimated budget of 11.5 billion euros in aid to finance travel costs, the ambitious “Go to Travel” recovery plan is making many...

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[Sport / Japan] Strong supporters

In Fukuoka, with a stadium emptied of its fans due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Japanese baseball team “Fukuoka Softbank Hawks” had a very original idea to fill this void: robots. Before their match against the “Rakuten Eagles”, more than 20 robots danced during their team’s...

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[Various Facts / Japan] Death by abandonment

A Tokyo resident woman was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of leaving her three-year-old daughter at home alone for over a week, while she spent the week with her boyfriend, leaving her child to die of hunger. Divorced 24-year-old Saki Kakekashi has admitted to the...

[Tradition / Japan] The Stars Fest

On 07/07, in Tokyo, and throughout Japan, it was Tanabata (七夕 節), the feast of the stars, the seventh night of the seventh month. Unfortunately this year, there was no matsuri (festival) to celebrate the meeting of the goddess Orihime (織 姫) and the man...

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[Music / Japan] “OfftOn” (indie)

From Tokyo Japan, OfftOn is a minimal ambient R&B band merging chill and warm falsetto vocal style with dusty breakbeats. Originally released in January 2020, their first single “Brew Nicely” has been re mastered by Tokyo BLU Nation team.

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Yuri Shibamura

Yuri Shibamura is a mangaka, screenwriter and designer of Video Games. He worked for Alpha System and was a video game designer for Beck. He works on novels and RPG card games. He is known for designing miniature garden games using AI and parameters from...

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Yuichi Sasamoto

Yuichi Sasamoto (笹 本 祐 一), born February 18, 1963, is a Japanese science fiction writer who won the Seiun Prize for Hoshi no Pilot 2: Suiseikari, Ariel (series of novels), as well as for three non-fiction volumes , Passport to the Universe. He also...

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