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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 23, 2022
Stories centered on climate change slowly make inroads in massive gaming industry
Activists and governments are hoping they can encourage behavioral change among gamers through green nudges, where points are awarded for protecting the environment in consumer games
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Dec 18, 2022
Japan confronts problem of video game addiction
While nations like China and South Korea have imposed drastic restrictions on youth gaming in recent years, some in Japan feel they are being left to deal with the issue on their own.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 17, 2022
A small but growing movement to make video gaming greener
While most gamers don't link the power output of their machines with environmental issues, a small group of enthusiasts are starting to think differently,
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 13, 2022
Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer to Sony includes subscription service
Microsoft has publicly stated that it offered Sony a 10-year deal to make Call of Duty available on the Japanese company's PlayStation console.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 8, 2022
Exposure to white supremacist ideologies in online games surged in 2022
One-fifth of adults reported being confronted with White supremacist ideologies, more than double the rate a year earlier.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 7, 2022
Microsoft and Nintendo agree on 10-year Call of Duty deal
The agreement depends on Microsoft closing its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Dec 3, 2022
To bestselling gaming franchises, what are voice actors worth?
When a voice actor took to Twitter to complain about low wages, it was only the beginning of a drawn-out controversy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 30, 2022
China’s video game ambitions threaten to one-up Japan
Along with the EU, the world's second-largest economy, China, wants to use gaming to promote soft power. Japan should take that as a warning.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 30, 2022
Sony to launch ¥49,500 wearables to animate users' movements in the metaverse
The new Mocopi system consists of six pucks worn around the user's wrists, ankles, head and hips, that will work with various metaverse apps on Android phones or Apple iPhones.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Nov 28, 2022
Chuhai Labs takes a democratic approach to running its game studio
A former Nintendo employee takes what he learned from the gaming behemoth and aims to improve upon it at his own game studio.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 24, 2022
Nintendo breaks sales record with new Pokemon games on Switch
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet were released simultaneously on Nov. 18 and sold over 4 million units at home in Japan, also setting a new domestic record.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 18, 2022
'Sonic the Hedgehog' creator Yuji Naka arrested over insider trading
Tokyo prosecutors on Friday arrested the 57-year-old creator of the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series over alleged insider trading in shares of a game maker.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 8, 2022
Nintendo cuts Switch sales forecast even as chip shortage seen to be easing
The company says it's now front-loading production to maximize delivery in the holiday shopping season, and that production output has been improving since September.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Oct 29, 2022
This Halloween, play dead with some made-in-Japan horror games
You don't have to trudge to the movie theater this Halloween to get your share of screen screams.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 26, 2022
Smartphone storage space is the new turf war for game-makers
Japanese games publisher Gree expects a reckoning over escalating costs and ballooning file sizes as developers pack their games with increasingly intricate graphics and storylines.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 15, 2022
Brain cells in dish learn to play video game
Neuroscientists have shown that lab-grown brain cells can learn to play the classic video game Pong, and could be capable of 'intelligent and sentient behavior.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 3, 2022
Sony betting big on next VR headset with increased production plan
Mass production of the virtual reality goggles began in September and hasn't yet faced supply chain constraints, sources said.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
By Kathryn Wortley

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