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been made of cardboard in a move to deter sex.“Beds to be installed in Tokyo Olympic Village will be made of cardboard, this is aimed at avoiding intimacy among athletes,” American distance runner Paul Chelimo tweeted.“Beds will be able to withstand the weight of a single person to avoid situations beyond sports,” Chelimo went on.

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Square Enix has announced Voice Of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars, a new tabletop RPG from Nier and Drakengard creator Yoko Taro.In a new tweet from today (September 9), the publisher shared a Japanese teaser trailer of the game which is currently in development.“Open your mind and let your story unfold,” Square Enix said.

Call Of Duty: Mobile is working with the famed Japanese mecha designer Shoji Kawamori to design a new character skin for the seventh season of the game. Launching on September 10 at 1am BST, the Reaper – Ashura skin is supposed to be an “anime-like military robot”.“When I was thinking about the mecha design of the robot weapons in Call Of Duty: Mobile, which has a military-style worldview, I incorporated an “anime feel” to achieve a balance that is more human, while still retaining a mecha vibe

Yakuza series of action RPGs might seem intrinsically Japanese – but future games in the series might take place away from the Land of the Rising Sun.That’s according to Kazuki Hosokawa, director of Lost Judgment, the upcoming spin-off to Sega’s crime saga.

CD Projekt Red has announced a Kickstarter campaign for a new manga spinoff to its popular RPG series The Witcher.The Witcher: Ronin will see monster hunter Geralt of Rivia reimagined in the style of Japanese mythology, swapping the Euro-centric creatures and legends he pursues in The Witcher III for an assortment of Yokai inspired by folklore and classic fables.The hardback release of the book, which will be exclusive to the Kickstarter campaign, will be written by CD Projekt Red’s Rafał Jaki,

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentAn animator long showered with awards and critical praise, beginning with his 2004 full-length directorial debut “Mind Game,” Yuasa Masaaki is no stranger to the festival circuit. But Venice, where his new animated feature “Inu-Oh” is screening in the Horizons section, is his first Big Three festival.

EXCLUSIVE: Japanese action star Rina Takeda, Korean actress and model Go Joon-hee, Hong Kong actress Wiyona Yeung, and Singaporean actors Desmond Tan and Rebecca Lim are in discussions to join Hong Kong zombie movie Chungking Mansions.

TOKYO -- Tokyo police have arrested a man who allegedly attacked a car carrying Japanese entertainment icon Takeshi Kitano with a pickax, though nobody was injured, according to media reports.The 74-year-old director and actor, also known by his stage name Beat Takeshi, was in the car with his driver and was just leaving the compound of TBS television network after his weekly live talk show Saturday night, TBS and other Japanese media reported Sunday.The suspect allegedly smashed Kitano’s car

Jet Set Radio, has reportedly returned to Sega after a hiatus from the games industry.His return is somewhat of a muted one though, as the developer had posted the news back in May on his Facebook page (as discovered via ResetEra).“I have decided to resign from Yahoo Japan and return to my old company, Sega,” he wrote (translated by DeepL translator).

Yakuza Toshihiro Nagoshi is reportedly leaving Sega after 32 years to join NetEase.According to a new Bloomberg report, NetEase is in “final negotiations” with Nagoshi for him to leave Sega and join the Chinese company.Nagoshi joined Sega in 1989 and is the developer behind other video games such as Sega Rally and Monkey Ball, but most notably the Yakuza franchise which debuted in 2005 and now spans eight main entries and multiple spin-off titles.The Japanese developer was the chief creative

Richard Kuipers A young woman discovers she’s a crime family heiress in “Yakuza Princess,” a grimy action-thriller set in the neon-drenched streets of São Paulo’s Japanese district. Adapted from Danilo Beyruth’s graphic novel by Brazilian filmmaker Vicente Amorim (“Motorrad), “Yakuza” delivers stylish shootouts and eye-catching swordplay but lacks the dynamic characters and story-telling panache required to lift it into the top grade.

Lost Judgment demo is on the way after information about a demo leaked via the Japanese PlayStation Network.On August 26, the Twitter account ‘psnrelease2’ was able to find a reference to the upcoming RPG called ‘Lost Judgment: Unjudged Memory Trial Version‘ on the Japanese PSN – as spotted by GamesRadar, suggesting that a demo is on the way.If the leak is reliable, this could mean that the demo will be exclusive to Japan/Asia since it was discovered on the Japanese PSN.

Japanese Breakfast shared a dreamy new song yesterday (August 26) Calle ‘Glider’ – listen to it below.The musician, real name Michelle Zauner, has written the song for her upcoming video game soundtrack, Sable.In a statement, Zauner said film score legends Alan Menken and Joe Hisaishi were two of her biggest inspirations when creating the soundtrack.Zauner added: “I was so lucky Daniel Fineberg and Gregorios Kythreotis from Shedworks invited me onto this game so early on.“I was immediately

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefFilming has begun on multinational, multi-lingual TV series “Drops of God,” which is adapted from the best-selling Japanese manga series “Kami, no Shizuku.” Set in the worlds of wine and gastronomy, the series is backed by Legendary Television, Dynamic Television and the Nippon Television-owned Hulu Japan and produced with Adline EntertainmentThe story involves a woman who discovers that her estranged father has left her the world’s greatest wine collection in