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You can get this new smart watch with a heart rate monitor for just 3,980 yen, or less than US$40!
The Yu-Gi-Oh! Strongest Imitator System is a major step in making those anime duels come to life.
At half the price and with much more functionality than before, is it finally time to tie the virtual knot?
Kyoto-based technology company created a neural network that’s an idol otaku, then set if free to daydream of its perfect idols.
Monkeys with typewriters can write Shakespeare but can machines create anime as well as humans?
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Like automotive magpies, we fall in love with something shiny. Now just to find a(nother) car to put it in.
Japan has a reputation for cool gadgets and efficient interiors, but this is on a whole new level!
Troubling statistic is coupled with an additional one-in-four saying they’ve heard the word, but don’t know what it means.
Anime becomes reality with help from the creator of the original Gundam, and it even has a strange, hard-to-pronounce anime mecha-style name!
Contents are actually an ironic jab at Japan’s holier-than-though critics of digital media consumption.
The future is here, but some residents aren’t prepared to accept an artificially intelligent mayor so soon.
Silhouettes of karate fighters, bodybuilders, and domestically dedicated dudes make would-be criminals think you’ve got a live-in boyfriend.
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