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• Bookmark Virtual Girl Nem's "Metaverse Evolution Theory" Intro Published in English

  The introduction to the book Metaverse Evolution Theory by Japanese VTuber and writer Virtual Girl Nem has now been published in English. The 5,000-word introduction is available at her official Medium…

  March 22 2024, 4:27am | Comments

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  May 9 2023, 10:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Man Married to Hologram Can't Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch

  The Japanese newspaper The Mainichi first reported on the marital troubles back in January, with the New York Times providing further details this week.

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Man Married to Hologram Can't Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch

  The Japanese newspaper The Mainichi first reported on the marital troubles back in January, with the New York Times providing further details this week.

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

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  March 31 2022, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Westernisation fact or fiction? The case of Japan and the US…

  In 1860, Fukuzawa Yukichi, a young Japanese student still learning English himself, accompanied the first ever Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States as its English interpreter.

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Reddit Residents living permanently in Japan's cyber-cafés - Lost in Manboo (2015) A four-square-metre box with a screen and computer. This is what Japanese cyber-cafes offer, around the clock. Most customers just spend an hour or two here. But there are thousands who spend their lives in them.

  April 5 2019, 12:20am | Comments

• Bookmark It's So Hot in Japan, the Fake Food in Restaurant Windows Is…

  A friend of mine flew from northern California, to North Carolina on Saturday night and was immediately surprised by what she encountered when she landed. “Why is it so hot here?”…

  August 14 2018, 8:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind -…

  As the country’s population ages and shrinks, there’s increasing demand for services that clean out and dispose of the property of the dead.

  August 7 2018, 6:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Director of the Scariest Movie We’ve Ever Seen Still Fears Nuclear…

  In 1984, the BBC aired a TV movie so disturbing it would only repeat the broadcast once, a year later, on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. That…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Japanese words for "space" could change your view of the world…

  When you are the first person to arrive in a meeting room, do you think of it as being empty or full? If you were raised in the West, a meeting…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

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  November 9 2017, 5:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans - The Atlantic

  It was a tense summer day in 1835 Japan. The country’s reigning Go player, Honinbo Jowa, took his seat across a board from a 25-year-old prodigy by the name of Akaboshi…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark Amia Srinivasan reviews ‘Other Minds’ by Peter Godfrey-Smith and ‘The Soul of…

  In 1815, 15 years before he made his most famous print, The Great Wave, Hokusai published three volumes of erotic art. In one of them there is a woodcut print known…

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

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  July 31 2017, 1:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Unbelievably True Story Of A 'Good-For-Nothing' Artist And Her Revolutionary Vagina…

  This article contains extensive descriptions of vaginas and might be NSFW, depending on your place of work. Growing up, Japanese artist Rokudenashiko ― who uses a pseudonym that translates to “good-for-nothing”…

  September 21 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Crabs With Beach Trash Homes – Okinawa, Japan | Okinawa Nature Photography

  It’s important to photograph the hermit crabs in their natural habitat.  I prefer to photograph them using a wide angle lens to achieve a unique perspective. Hermit crab in a glass…

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Abandoned shops, discarded laundry and traffic lights signalling to empty streets: Eerie…

  More than five years after the devastating tsunami and the 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck north-eastern Japan, causing the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the Japanese town remains abandoned. Since…

  July 12 2016, 1:01pm | Comments

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  September 20 2015, 1:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Japanese science fiction award opens entries to aliens and computers | Books…

  Last week, the Australian writer Richard Flanagan stalked on to the stage wearing a broad grin, kissed the Duchess of Cornwall and grasped the 2014 Man Booker prize.

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Human Nightmares – The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema

  A man wakes up one morning to find himself slowly transforming into a living hybrid of meat and scrap metal; he dreams of being sodomised by a woman with a snakelike,…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

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  July 21 2014, 9:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Common Western Classifications of Suiseki | The Art of Stone Appreciation -…

  | | | Among the four languages covered in this section, the most common terminology in use today is Japanese. This page contains English terminology with Japanese in parenthesis (where applicable).

  May 14 2014, 3:19pm | Comments

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  May 2 2014, 4:48am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Interview with GLTI.CH at Noisey.Vice

  March 18 2014, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark “The biological significance of these sequences is not known.”

  In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they were studying in a common bacterium. They mentioned them in the…

  March 4 2014, 2:33pm | Comments

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  February 3 2014, 3:01pm | Comments

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: GIANT GOD WARRIOR APPEARS IN TOKYO Studio Ghibli presents Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo, a short tokusatsu film. (In Japanese, no subtitles.)

  April 24 2013, 5:41pm | Comments

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  March 8 2013, 7:10am | Comments

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• Bookmark Virtual Girl Nem's "Metaverse Evolution Theory" Intro Published in English

  The introduction to the book Metaverse Evolution Theory by Japanese VTuber and writer Virtual Girl Nem has now been published in English. The 5,000-word introduction is available at her official Medium…

  March 22 2024, 4:27am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 9 2023, 10:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Man Married to Hologram Can't Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch

  The Japanese newspaper The Mainichi first reported on the marital troubles back in January, with the New York Times providing further details this week.

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Man Married to Hologram Can't Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch

  The Japanese newspaper The Mainichi first reported on the marital troubles back in January, with the New York Times providing further details this week.

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 31 2022, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Westernisation fact or fiction? The case of Japan and the US…

  In 1860, Fukuzawa Yukichi, a young Japanese student still learning English himself, accompanied the first ever Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States as its English interpreter.

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Reddit Residents living permanently in Japan's cyber-cafés - Lost in Manboo (2015) A four-square-metre box with a screen and computer. This is what Japanese cyber-cafes offer, around the clock. Most customers just spend an hour or two here. But there are thousands who spend their lives in them.

  April 5 2019, 12:20am | Comments

• Bookmark It's So Hot in Japan, the Fake Food in Restaurant Windows Is…

  A friend of mine flew from northern California, to North Carolina on Saturday night and was immediately surprised by what she encountered when she landed. “Why is it so hot here?”…

  August 14 2018, 8:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind -…

  As the country’s population ages and shrinks, there’s increasing demand for services that clean out and dispose of the property of the dead.

  August 7 2018, 6:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Director of the Scariest Movie We’ve Ever Seen Still Fears Nuclear…

  In 1984, the BBC aired a TV movie so disturbing it would only repeat the broadcast once, a year later, on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. That…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Japanese words for "space" could change your view of the world…

  When you are the first person to arrive in a meeting room, do you think of it as being empty or full? If you were raised in the West, a meeting…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 9 2017, 5:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans - The Atlantic

  It was a tense summer day in 1835 Japan. The country’s reigning Go player, Honinbo Jowa, took his seat across a board from a 25-year-old prodigy by the name of Akaboshi…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark Amia Srinivasan reviews ‘Other Minds’ by Peter Godfrey-Smith and ‘The Soul of…

  In 1815, 15 years before he made his most famous print, The Great Wave, Hokusai published three volumes of erotic art. In one of them there is a woodcut print known…

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 31 2017, 1:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Unbelievably True Story Of A 'Good-For-Nothing' Artist And Her Revolutionary Vagina…

  This article contains extensive descriptions of vaginas and might be NSFW, depending on your place of work. Growing up, Japanese artist Rokudenashiko ― who uses a pseudonym that translates to “good-for-nothing”…

  September 21 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Crabs With Beach Trash Homes – Okinawa, Japan | Okinawa Nature Photography

  It’s important to photograph the hermit crabs in their natural habitat.  I prefer to photograph them using a wide angle lens to achieve a unique perspective. Hermit crab in a glass…

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Abandoned shops, discarded laundry and traffic lights signalling to empty streets: Eerie…

  More than five years after the devastating tsunami and the 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck north-eastern Japan, causing the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the Japanese town remains abandoned. Since…

  July 12 2016, 1:01pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 4 2016, 1:45am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 20 2015, 1:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Japanese science fiction award opens entries to aliens and computers | Books…

  Last week, the Australian writer Richard Flanagan stalked on to the stage wearing a broad grin, kissed the Duchess of Cornwall and grasped the 2014 Man Booker prize.

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Human Nightmares – The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema

  A man wakes up one morning to find himself slowly transforming into a living hybrid of meat and scrap metal; he dreams of being sodomised by a woman with a snakelike,…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 21 2014, 9:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Common Western Classifications of Suiseki | The Art of Stone Appreciation -…

  | | | Among the four languages covered in this section, the most common terminology in use today is Japanese. This page contains English terminology with Japanese in parenthesis (where applicable).

  May 14 2014, 3:19pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 2 2014, 4:48am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Interview with GLTI.CH at Noisey.Vice

  March 18 2014, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark “The biological significance of these sequences is not known.”

  In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they were studying in a common bacterium. They mentioned them in the…

  March 4 2014, 2:33pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 3 2014, 3:01pm | Comments

• Portfolio Datamoshing the Land of Ooo: An Interview with David OReilly

  April 25 2013, 5:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

  April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: GIANT GOD WARRIOR APPEARS IN TOKYO Studio Ghibli presents Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo, a short tokusatsu film. (In Japanese, no subtitles.)

  April 24 2013, 5:41pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 8 2013, 7:10am | Comments

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