Japan’s official Water Ambassador is a Pokémon

MORE NEWS FROM THE PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESSA spokesman from Erskine Veterans charity said: "The war which had raged on for over six years was finally over.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is ruthless in Netflix’s trailer for “KATE”.

Rainbow Six Siege in Japan are complaining that the game is being overtaken with what they call ‘AFK bouncers’.The PS4 version of the Ubisoft game is specifically experiencing the problem according to Eurogamer, as the button mapping in Japan here allows for a Renown (the games currency) exploit.Essentially, as the circle button on the Japanese PS4 version is both confirm and crouch, players can enter a match and repeatedly crouch while off doing other things.

Donkey Kong expansion despite the new area not being officially announced by Universal Studios.Originally spotted by VGC, tweets have emerged of construction cranes looming over Super Nintendo World’s Osaka environment.

The Pokémon Company has recreated the iconic and incredibly useful Bicycle from Pokémon Red and Blue.The Bicycle was created to celebrate their Japanese Twitter account Poke_Times reaching a million followers and will be given away to one lucky winner.According to Kataku, hopefuls need to follow @poke_times and use the hashtag ポケモンの100万円じてんしゃ (“Pokémon’s million yen [sic] bicycle”) to stand a chance of winning.

Jessica Kiang No man is an island, but for 29 years, until his final surrender in 1974, Hiroo Onoda came as close as any man could.

Netflix has in early development a live-action Pokémon series based on the popular trading cards, sources close to the project tell Deadline.

EXCLUSIVE: Director Andrew Levitas has sent a letter of complaint to MGM and others to protest what he claims is a decision to “bury” the film Minamata because of the personal baggage of its star, Johnny Depp. The film lays bare the scandalous neglect that the Chisso Corporation displayed in the Japanese coastal city where locals were ravaged by mercury poisoning from chemicals dumped into the waters by a factory, which spread to local population through the ingestion of fish.

As the world’s athletes gather in Japan for the Summer Olympics the country is experiencing a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections. Country-wide, case numbers have risen 20% in the past week, with 4,204 new infections reported on Friday.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefU.S. First Lady Jill Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron are expected to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo on Friday, according to Japanese reports.

crowdfunding drive last Friday (July 16) requesting donations of at least 5,000 yen (approximately GBP33).Within the first 24 hours, the crowdfunding campaign met its goal of 10million yen, according to an Anime News Network report.

EXCLUSIVE: New York’s Japan Society has unveiled the full line-up for the 15th edition of Japan Cuts: Festival Of New Japanese Film, the largest celebration of Japanese cinema in North America.

EXCLUSIVE: In an intriguing partnership that signals the continuing trend of far-flung international collaborations in the film/TV biz, leading Japanese multiplatform entertainment company Nippon TV is teaming up with London-based premium media outfit Envision Entertainment to form a joint slate. First up will be a series inspired by hit Japanese show Double Booking, and a pair of manga adaptations.

Addie Morfoot ContributorGarrett Bradley’s three-part Netflix docuseries about Japanese tennis sensation Naomi Osaka arrives on the streamer at a particularly fraught time in the athlete’s career.Named simply “Naomi Osaka,” it debuts one week before the start of the Tokyo Olympics, where the 23 year old will compete after having recently withdrawn from the French Open and Wimbledon.

The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild has landed a fan in police custody after attempting to sell them online.The 27-year-old was detained in Japan after illegally produced Breath Of The Wild save files listed on an auction site in April were found to belong to him.Tampering with save files is not always a criminal offence, but Japan has been implementing far stricter rules in recent years, leading to several incidents.