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Tokyo Government to release official dating app

Love, Tokyo style

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The AI ’90s yearbook trend hits our office, with hilarious results 【Photos】

Japanese-style American jocks and honors students are here to brighten your day.

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Kodansha’s K Manga app launches with 60 English simupubs among 400 titles

Oh, K Manga!

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Japan’s Pigeon Calculator now available in English!

As much English as you need for a calculator at least.

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Cloud Catcher is a real Japanese crane game with real prizes that you play through your phone

Prizes of both the anime and edible varieties can be yours even if you can’t make it to the arcade.

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Don’t uninstall that Covid-tracking app yet, warns Japanese government

It can’t even go away properly.

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Real-time shade information added to walking app from Navitime Japan

Let Navitime throw you some shade.

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Travelers entering Japan will have to install location confirmation app, Skype on smartphones

Don’t have a smartphone? You’ll be required to rent one, and pay for it out of your own pocket.

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Hit Japanese app Crabhouse forced to change name on iOS

Crabhome is where the heart is now.

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Happy 35th anniversary to a true gaming icon: The guy from Hudson’s Adventure Island

Master Takahashi is a treasured pioneer of pro-gaming.

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We try out the hot new social media app that everyone’s talking about, Crabhouse!

It’s…a little different than we were expecting.

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Some of Japan’s COVID-19 contact tracing apps haven’t been working since last September

It’s not like we needed it or anything.

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Back to the Future II-style weather forecasts developed by Japanese universities

New system can provide highly accurate 30-minute rain forecasts that update in real-time.

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The terror of playing a Japanese horror video game with cute face filters

It turns out that making freaky ghosts wear Snapchat-style filters does not make them less scary.

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Anime-style magic circles summon vocabulary for you in this language-learning app from Japan【Vid】

Free app Spell Master turns you into a linguistic sorcerer.

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Hokkaido man arrested for pretending to visit Aeon shopping centers 2.7 million times

And so ends the Great Aeon Loyalty Point Heist of ’18.

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New photo app turns you, or Mr. Sato, into a sparklingly handsome shojo manga dreamboat【Photos】

From wannabe gangster to would-be 2-D heartthrob in just seconds.
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Don’t give up, little guy! Not because you can catch them, but because it’s so adorable to watch you try.

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Enjoy a free beer in Tokyo every single day with awesome monthly mobile app

100 bars and restaurants in and around the capital are part of bargain that costs less than two normally priced beers.

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App that buys your receipts crashes within hours of release due to too many users

ONE person’s trash is another’s treasure.

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