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Pictures: Tokyo Comiket 86 (NSFW)
Last weekend was the 86th Tokyo Comiket, Japan’s bi-annual version of Comicon. Here’s how it went down:Advertisements targeting the advancing otaku horde were plastered all over the nearest train...
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Pictures: Koenji Awa Odori 2014
Pictures by Nnamdi Wosu and Cal WiddallLast weekend was the Koenji Awa Odori, one of Tokyo’s biggest and best summer festivals, in which 10,000 dancers parade through the oft-cramped streets of Koenji...
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Pictures: We Visited Tokyo’s Pokémon Cafe (and Pokemon Exhibition)
The Pokémon exhibition and cafe was held on the 52nd floor of Roppongi’s Mori Tower, the 5th tallest building in Tokyo at 238m (781ft). Today (August 30th, 2014) is its final day.Unless otherwise...
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Cool Innovations, Weirdness & Booth Babes: Our Pictures of the Tokyo Game...
Ever wonder what it’s like inside the Tokyo Game Show? We used our press passes (no doubt given to us as some kind of clerical error) to give you a peek behind the screen of the first industry-only...
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Video & Pictures: The Nada “Fighting Festival”
In Himeji last week, hundreds of men gathered in fundoshi to risk their lives so they could crash giant portable shrines against each other. Second perhaps only to the infamous Penis Festival in terms...
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Pictures: Fashion Throughout Japanese History at the Jidai Matsuri 2014
The Jidai Matsuri, held in Kyoto on the 22nd of October every year, is one of Japan’s biggest traditional festivals. We were there this year, braving the rain as the soggy parade members trudged past...
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Pictures: The Kurama Fire Festival 2014
In the third of our recent Japanese festival galleries (the first two being the Nada Fighting Festival and the Jidai Matsuri), we have some pictures from one of the most eccentric events in Japan – the...
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Hebocon: The World’s Greatest Tournament of Crappy Fighting Robots
Welcome to Hebocon: The Robot Contest for Dummies, where only those with no technical skill can enter and crappiness trumps strategy.This year’s tournament included battles between 31 poorly-built...
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Why Anime Japan 2015 Kicked Ass
Tokyo Desu writer and anime master George Art Baker attended this year’s Anime Japan and – as our shrewder readers will have guessed from the title – wasn’t disappointed.Anime Japan 2015 was the anime...
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Pictures: A Tokyo Halloween
Halloween gets bigger every year in Tokyo, and with this year falling on a Saturday it was especially crazy. From early afternoon to early morning, the streets, bars and clubs of Shibuya were filled...
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