Posts Tagged ‘Japan’

A 31-year old unemployed Japanese man by the name of Shuichiro Tanaka has admitted to uploading 3 TV-shows and sharing 165 more on BitTorrent after he was arrested by Tokyo Police’s Cyber Crime unit and charged with copyright infringement. In his confession, the man told the investigators that he used BitTorrent because he believed it [...]

The Ultra Jump manga anthology and magazine will publish the last chapter of the popular seinen manga Tenjho Tenge in the forthcoming September issue releasing on August 19th in Japan. The manga authored by Oh Great! (Ogurei Ito) was formerly published by the soon to be defunct CMX Manga imprint run by DC Comics and [...]

The Misato Katsuragi News Project, a paid news aggregator for the Playstation 3 developed by Namco Bandai and startup voice synthesis technogy developer Cellius (founded by Playstation developer Ken Kutaragi) will cease operation in Japan on June 5th of this year, marking 364 days of operation and ending one day short of what would have [...]

The Japanese Nikkei business newspaper reports that McDonald’s Japan and Nintendo are jointly developing a custom training application called eSmart for internal use that will be deployed via Nintendo DS consoles in its 3.700 Japanese restaurants later this year. The report also mentions that the initiative was developed at a cost of $2.2 million and [...]

In a letter to investors, Nippon Ichi President Tomohiro Sato has announced his resignation from the company, effective March 31st, for what Sato calls “personal reasons”. Nippon Ichi Software recently posted a 97% loss in operating income for the nine month period ending on January 2009 in comparison to the same period in 2008 in [...]

Konami has delayed the Japanese launch of the long awaited next entry in the Metal Gear Solid franchise in Peace Walker for the PSP from March 18th to April 29th. The release goes on to explain the following reason for the delay: “Unfortunately, we require more time in order to make the final adjustments and [...]

Japanese news sources are filing multiple reports centered around a Japanese man being the first person arrested after using the Japanese Perfect Dark P2P filesharing program after uploading 10 instances of the currently airing Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood TV anime in one day. What makes the arrest significant is the fact that among Japanese anime enthusiasts, [...]

Following up on the initial announcement on Tuesday, Capcom has posted an English dubbed version of the Super Street Fighter IV – Juri OVA trailer via GameTrailers. As previously reported, the anime is being directed by Fuminori Kizaki (Basilisk, Afro Samurai) at the Gonzo anime studio. The anime will ship with the Xbox 360 version [...]

CNN has filed a video report detailing the work done by Buddhist monk Kansho Tagai who calls himself  Mr. Happy and is  a rapper using hip-hop music combined with Buddhist teachings to reconnect with young people who say Buddhist sutras are hard to understand otherwise. Similarly, the Monk Bar is also detailed with monk and [...]

Japan’s Asuka Magazine will be launching a new shojo manga serial based off of Neon Genesis Evangelion on February 24th titled Evangelion – Ikari Shinji Tantei Nikki (Evangelion – Shinji’s Detective Diary) with character design provided by Takumi Yoshimura. This follows two previous shojo manga adaptations of the storied franchise beginning with Evangelion: Kôtetsu no [...]