With only two episodes out, manga author Akiko Higashimura (Princess Jellyfish, Tokyo Tarareba Musume) has suspended publication of her new manga, Himozairu. Published in Kodansha's Monthly Morning 2 manga magazine, the series followed a group of unemployed young men looking to better their romantic prospects by teaching themselves domestic skills that would make them more attractive partners to professional women.

When you’re a simple manga/anime fan, seeing the story you love so much being adapted into a (insert entertainment medium here), can often be painful. Sometimes it feels like whoever has the big bucks to make the film happen couldn’t describe two episodes from the series and as a result, the essence of the story can be lost in greed, subs, and dubs (I’m looking at you, live-action Attack on Titan). 

To add intensity to your desire to visit Japan, Sanoyas Interaction announced that they’re opening a real-life Pokémon training center in Osaka on November 19th. For those uninitiated, part of the process of becoming a Pokémon Master is making a pilgrimage to gyms where trainers can strengthen their skills and bonds with their adorable biological arsenal. 

Evangelion auteur Hideaki Anno has teamed up with the Live-Action Attack on Titan director Shinji Higuchi to craft Japan’s response to last year’s Hollywood reboot of Godzilla. A year before that, Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim burst forth on the screen.

In an effort aimed at attracting the younger generation to relatively new professions (and perhaps providing an epic illustration of everday heroes in the work force) one Japanese employment site has the right idea imagining accountants, land investigators, and bloggers as RPG heroes.

Every year, CEATEC, the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies, parades the most advanced technologies Japan has to offer in a given year before the public. It’s going on as I write this, and of course, robots were front-and-center at Makahari Messe. 

As a young, potential homeowner in the United States, making the switch from apartment to your first home is a hefty investment. Unless you've just come out with the next Uber service, you'll most likely find a sweet, previously-owned fixer-upper house to modernize throughout your stay and make the commitment to dead batteries, DIY, and the dividends that result from home ownership. But the low-quality housing stock in Japan is a product of a real estate market that’s very different from that in the United States.