Virtual reality has arrived for real at the Tokyo Game Show, one of the world’s biggest exhibitions for the latest in fun and games. That’s evident everywhere. Players at the booths are donning chunky headgear covering their eyes and ears, immersed in their own worlds, shooting imaginary monsters or dancing with virtual partners, at Makuhari […]
Tattoos have long been linked to organised crime in Japan with intricate imagery typically inked across the entire bodies of Yakuza gang members. While tattoos are banned on beaches and in public baths in Japan, the country’s leading tattooer has seen the body art gradually lose the crime label so often attached to it. In […]
T-shirts given to participants of a national stand-up paddleboarding tournament here left at least 24 with burns and rashes, including one who was hospitalized, Fuji News Network reported on Sunday (September 11). At least 24 people who wore t-shirts given out by Stand Up Paddle Union Japan, which ran the tournament, started reporting symptoms like […]
Just after the recently-concluded Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, President Rodrigo Duterte and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have already set eyes on meeting again in the next few months. This meeting, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr., aims to further strengthen the ties of the two countries. Yasay said Japan […]
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said Friday she will request a 12.6-billion-yen supplementary budget for fiscal 2016 to take additional measures to shorten the Japanese capital’s long waiting list of applicants for nursery facilities. Announcing emergency measures to address the problem, Koike said she will increase the capacities of nursery services in Tokyo by 17,000 during […]
Fire fighters in a central Japan city said that 115 people who were taking part in a marathon event Sunday were stung by wasps, but no one suffered serious allergic reactions. After being stung, the runners were given treatment by doctors and ambulance attendants who were on standby at the site in the city of […]
An estimated 541,000 people aged between 15 and 39 in Japan avoid social contact and shut themselves in their homes, according to a government survey released Wednesday. The figure compares with the previous Cabinet Office survey in 2010 that found an estimated 696,000 such people — known as hikikomori — across the country. Despite the […]
A shinkansen bullet train driver came under fire Thursday after an online photo emerged of him operating it with his feet up. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) said the 29-year-old acknowledged that he operated the high speed train in that position for 10 seconds on Tuesday. “He told the company that he had tired […]
Huge rocks fell suddenly at Mount Fuji last week and reached a mountain trail, forcing climbers to escape. No one was injured. A man who took video of the scene said he heard a rumbling sound from above, and saw rocks rolling down. He said they were about 1 to 3 meters in diameter. The incident […]
The Halloween season kicks off in Japan this week with the festivities beginning at Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea where parades and other events will be held until Oct 31. Disney’s annual festival, which starts on Friday, includes Mickey Mouse and his friends joining ghost and skeleton “stars” in entertaining guests with a variety of […]
