Revisit your childhood at the Doraemon museum in Kawasaki
Doraemon needs no introduction; an endearing manga robotic cat that time travels from the 22nd century to the present day, helping young Nobita to cope with daily life and its valuable lessons. Last...
View ArticleDoraemon is now officially the resident of Kawasaki
Almost a century before his birth, the adorable feline Doraemon was awarded the citizenship of Kawasaki. Many fans were seen waving the robotic cat’s special residency certificate, which was officially...
View ArticleGodzilla ticket sales topped by cartoon cat Doraemon
For the last 50 years, Godzilla has been an unstoppable movie monster in Japan, and not just in the literal sense, but in ticket sales too: the giant, iconic radioactive lizard has held the record of...
View ArticleDoraemon postage stamps to be issued by Japan Post in June
As part of its anime hero and heroine stamp series, Japan Post Co will be issuing a postal stamp set featuring characters from the massively popular Doraemon manga and anime series. The project is a...
View ArticleJapan’s LINE messaging app becoming an emoticon factory, flooded with orders
By now, it has become a common experience for Akira Morikawa, CEO at Japanese social networking platform LINE Corp., to be stopped on the street and be asked – through some weird grimace and gesture –...
View ArticleFilmmaker searches for Japanese child idolized in Israel
Israeli filmmaker Dvorit Shargal has come to Japan to search for probably the most famous Japanese girl in her country. The Japanese girl known as “Noriko-san” appeared in a picture book that has been...
View ArticleManga artists gather to scribble on historic Tokyo publisher’s building...
The nine-story building that housed publisher Shogakukan Inc. for almost half a century in Tokyo will soon be demolished to give way for a new and better earthquake-proof structure. Demolition will...
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