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Japanese man arrested for allegedly hacking Pokémon game to sell custom monsters

The Pokémon Company Japanese police arrested a man after finding evidence that he illegally tampered with save data for the Nintendo Switch games Pokémon Scarlet…

mingooland · April 13, 2024 · 2 min read

Hideko Takamine at 100: six of the Japanese actor’s films that captured a nation in flux

Hideko Takamine as Carmen in Carmen Comes Home (1951). Shochiku Ofuna Studio/Wiki Commons In March 2024, Japanese film fans celebrated what would have been the…

mingooland · April 6, 2024 · 6 min read

Japanese manhole covers are painted with flowers, bridges, mountains and mascots — and now they’re for sale

Kenshi Kingami|nsplash Visitors to Japan are usually primed to look up – at the vast skyscrapers, the ornate temple gates, the traditional timber-framed guesthouses. Those…

mingooland · October 30, 2023 · 6 min read