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American-born Japanese celebrity Pakkun’s comparison doesn’t go over well, but one commenter has a better food analogy.
Warnings about “the dangers of social media” have critics saying his statement appallingly misses the point.
Japanese train stations get the self-proclaimed “vigilante” heroes they neither need, nor want.
Miyuki Muto, the president of a fish wholesaler, received a five-year suspended sentence for killing an employee after physically assaulting him.
When you work in a customer-facing role, you can expect to deal with some difficult people from time to time. Being hospitalized by one of them, however, should never be a concern…
Considering it’s the same country that gave us movies like Battle Royale, Tokyo Gore Police and Ichi the Killer, Japan’s method of handling violent video game content can be quite perplexing at times.
Despite being able to attack the undead hordes in survival horror beat-em-up Dead Rising with everything from ‘wet floor’ signs to katanas, decapitations were notably absent from the Japanese version of the game when it released back in 2006. More recently, Japanese Metal Gear Solid and Gears of War fans were shocked to see that numerous scenes and animations were cut from the versions released in their homeland, even though the games were clearly marked as “adults only”.
Japan’s video game censors have struck again this week, this time taking their (presumably family-friendly) hatchets to newly released PlayStation 4 horror game Until Dawn—and the method of censoring the scenes deemed too much for Japan is startlingly bad.
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One Piece characters’ nationalities revealed, but fans have mixed opinions
Japanese office disaster: man pees in drink bottle of woman coworker because “he liked her”
New voice of Super Mario for CG movie is Chris Pratt, Donkey Kong also will appear
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