It’s been 10 years since the Naruto anime series started and to celebrate Laguna Gamagori marine resort complex will be hosting a Naruto theme park attraction. More »

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Artist Riusuke Fukahori showed his debut collection at London’s ICN gallery from December 1, 2011 to January 11, 2012, transforming the showroom into a world that is a Goldfish Salvation. More »

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Sanrio and CAPCOM collaborates to create a line of character goods. The goods are crossovers between the game Monster Hunter’s Airū (Felyne) and Sanrio’s My Melody and Kuromi. There merchandise will be sold in 20 different companies starting in August. I never played Monster Hunter before but the crossovers look adorable. I wouldn’t mind buying cute goods of them.

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Sanrio is collaborating again and this time Hello Kitty will be joining forces with Evangelion to produce their latest line of products “EVANGELION x HELLO KITTY”. More »

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From Funsauce: So, if you’re not Asian and you don’t really know anything Asian, it’s sometimes hard differentiating between Asian things, especially languages (don’t get me started into looks and whatnot - I’m Chinese and people think I’m Korean, hah). So how do you tell the difference between Asian languages? More »

Kansai Johnny’s Jr. mood-maker Kiriyama Akito looks forward to playing the gay role in the upcoming theater production “Beautiful Sunday.” More »

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With the demand for e-readers nowadays, it’s no surprise that an airline has decided to build in a reader into their seats. But this one isn’t just any e-reader, it’s a manga reader! More »

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BIGLOBE has compiled a list of the most popular Twitter trends of 2011 in Japan. With the top ‘word,’ ‘hashtag,’ and ‘celebrity’ ranking, the results are pretty interesting. As expected, the Tohoku Earthquake made a prevalent appearance, but even the Hallyu wave has appeared in these Twitter trends: More »

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The year is coming to an end and all of the end of year rankings are beginning to show themselves. On December 1st, the Karaoke system manufacturer, Daiichi Kosho released the “2011 Yearly Karaoke Request Ranking”. Check out what made the list. More »

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From Omghaute: Recently, a team of designers for Madewell, took a trip to Japan on an “Inspiration Tour”, and were met by a cafe that was definitely inspirational!

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