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President promises upcoming anime movies are still in production, but says “Things are still very far from normal.”
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Typhoon Hagibis brought Team Canada’s World Cup campaign to an early finish, but the kindhearted athletes still had one more thing to do in Japan.
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The company has received over one billion yen (US$10.1 million), and plans to use every single one for human beings, not business.
Japanese Twitter shows that the Internet isn’t all savage memes and fighting about politics.
26 years after having to hide under his bed sheets to play Link’s Awakening, this musician is part of the game’s remake.
Tells rising star it’s OK to cry, and does plenty of it herself.
Clannad creators hope Kyoto Animation will continue to “give courage to people in Japan and throughout the world.”
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