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It took about a decade, but the Abe administration is finally figuring out how to use Twitter.
Koichi Sugiyama’s political beliefs keep some gamers from enjoying the video game series, so this famous Japanese psychiatry expert has her own special cheat code.
Move to allow private companies to handle public water supply has politicians fired up, supporters unwilling to communicate as dissenter shouts “No! No! No! No! No!”
In other words, now’s probably a good time to get all that valuable data onto removable physical media.
Jumpei Yasuda also explains why he said he was a South Korean man named Umaru in a video filmed by is captors.
61-year governmental partnership brought to a close as Osaka mayor cites lack of necessary “deep trust.”
Suspiciously, councilwoman was removed from meeting just before introducing governmental reform proposal.
Other members call for immediate suspension of meeting due to breech of etiquette, take eight hours to decide on her increasingly stupid punishments.
Shinzo Abe might have just pulled a total David Copperfield during an appearance in Akihabara.
Japanese netizen’s responses were fairly mixed, but most were pretty casual about Trump’s allegedly incendiary statement.
Japanese netizens react to the PR photo with a variety of “helpful” advice hashtags, as well as some hashtags that aren’t very helpful at all.
Otaku assemblyman’s latest project stars a 1,300-year-old girl from a popular video game franchise.
Journalist Jumpei Yasuda, missing for three years, was seen in a terrorist hostage video pleading for help, but under a different name and nationality.
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Japan and Prime Minister Abe make it to the list as the second most trustworthy country and leader in the world in Australians’ minds.
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