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[VIDEO] EXCLUSIVE: ‘They Look Like Lions, But They’re Gods’: New Edition of Tono Matsuri Festival Documentary

We arrived at our new home in northern Japan just days before the beginning of the Tono-matsuri Festival. We had a unique opportunity to capture some footage and share it with our readers. Tōno, Iwate, is motto.media‘s new eastern HQ. [...]

[VIDEO] EXCLUSIVE: Here We Go Again: North Korea Fires Missile Over Northern Japan

Here they go again. Firing a missile over my head. Early this morning I captured this video with my phone – primarily the audio of the emergency alert – sometime between 7:00 and 7:30 a.m. Iwate, Tony City, Japan is about 625 km south of [...]

[VIDEO] Museum of Fabulous Japanese Advertising: Katy Perry’s Fabric Softener Commercial

Soranews‘ Oona McGee has this item: … American songstress Katy Perry is known around the world for her hit songs, extravagant costumes, and her bad blood with fellow singer Taylor Swift. Here in Japan, though, the 32-year-old [...]

iPhone’s Summer Production Glitches Create Holiday Jitters

The widely anticipated 10th-anniversary iPhone, with an expected base price near $1,000, hit a speed bump or two related to its OLED display. Yoko Kubota in Tokyo, Tripp Mickle in San Francisco, and Takashi Mochizuki in Tokyo report: Apple [...]

[VIDEO] Japanese Electric Supercar Promises Sub Two-Second 0-60 Time

Aspark, a relatively new company out of Japan, is unveiling its first planned production car at the Frankfurt Motor Show next week, dubbed the Owl. It’s an all-electric carbon-bodied supercar the company promises will go from 0-60 in under two [...]

Walter Becker’s Death: Farewell to Steely Dan

With Walter Becker’s death on Sunday, jazz-rock’s unlikeliest superstars are no more. They will be missed. Kyle Smith writes: ‘Polished through countless takes,” wrote the New York Times’s Jon Pareles in his weekend obituary of Walter [...]

Pyongyang's favourite newsreader Ri Chun-Hee announces North Korea's possession of a hydrogen bomb (AFP Photo/Handout)

[VIDEO] NORK Newsreader Ri Chun-Hee Goes Cuckoo for Coconuts Announcing North Korea’s H-Bomb Success

Pyongyang’s favourite newsreader – a woman in her 70s — returned to the airwaves Sunday to declare its proud possession of a hydrogen bomb. Ri Chun-Hee has previously told her loyal viewers of the deaths of the country’s [...]

[VIDEO] North Korea Fires Missile as Japan Warns Citizens to Take Precautions

I shot this video with my iPhone, early this morning, outside my house in Northern Japan. North Korea fires missile over Japan Citizens on Japan’s northern Hokkaido island warned to take precautions Japan condemns launch ‘in strongest [...]

Season 1 of ‘I’m Dying Up Here’ Favors Fiction Over History

Harry Waksberg writes: Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here, which ended its first season last night, is the newest unfunny drama about the world of comedy. Based in part on the book by the same name by William Knoedelseder, it’s a fairly unambitious [...]

[VIDEO] SPOILER ALERT: What Caused Venezuela’s Tragic Collapse? Socialism.

Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, and it was once Latin America’s richest country. Today, most grocery store shelves are empty, and Venezuelans are so hungry that they’re killing zoo animals for sustenance. [...]

[VIDEO] Emergency Response to Earthquake in Sichuan Province, Southwest China

CCTV footage showing after the China Earthquake Administration activated the level-1 emergency response procedure on Tuesday, following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake which hit Jiuzhaigou County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. via [...]

[VIDEO] ‘First They Killed My Father’ Trailer: Angelina Jolie’s Khmer Rouge Film

Mike Fleming Jr writes: Here is the first trailer for the Toronto International Film Festival-bound Angelina Jolie-directed First They Killed My Father, a harrowing Netflix drama about young Cambodian girl Loung Ung as she and her family [...]

[VIDEO] How China Is Changing Your Internet

Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else HONG KONG — For teenagers who like to sing along with Ariana Grande and Flo Rida, Musical.ly is a must-have. The app that lets users lip-sync and dance in their own music videos [...]

[VIDEO] SpaceX Has a Roomba-like Robot But No One Knows What It Really Is

SpaceX fans are extremely curious about a new robot that keeps appearing on SpaceX’s drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You.” Some are calling it the “Roomba” robot while others insist it should be called “Optimus [...]

What Liu Xiaobo’s Death Says About China’s Two Futures

China’s president has crafted an increasingly progressive image for himself abroad, while stifling dissent at home. Gina Anne Tam and Jeffrey Wasserstrom report: In mid-January, when Xi Jinping made his debut at Davos, the head of the Chinese [...]

The Defenders: Episode 1 Shown in Marvel Panel Full of Surprises

Fans were treated to an early look at the upcoming Netflix comic book drama, which unifies the four previous Marvel series. Liz Shannon Miller writes: Marvel likes to catch people off guard, which it more than did today at Comic-Con with its highly [...]

[VIDEO] Comic-Con: Marvel’s ‘Inhumans’ Debuts New IMAX Trailer, New Footage

Dino-Ray Ramos writes: Marvel Television chief Jeph Loeb, with his endless amount of energy, got the crowd riled up to welcome the cast and crew of the ABC superhero series Marvel’s Inhumans at Comic-Con today. Loeb was joined onstage by Anson [...]

[VIDEO] NHK Develops New VR Experience with 8K Video Projection and Hemisphere-Shaped Screen

Kazuaki Nagata reports: The virtually reality experience is no longer limited to bulky head gear with the advent of a new headset-free 8K high-resolution video projection system. Some Japanese firms have come up with a headset-free VR [...]

[VIDEO] Hong Kong Celebrates the Birthday of the ‘God of War’ Kwan Tai

Kwan Tai, the personification of loyalty and integrity, is worshipped in Hong Kong by police and gangsters alike. The historic Man Mo Temple in Sheung Wan hosts an annual lion dance in his honour. Unswerving Loyalty: Kwan Tai, Hong Kong’s God of [...]

[VIDEO] 1960s Vintage Film: The Home Of The Future: Year 1999

Joe Blevins writes: Trying to guess what the future will be like is almost always a losing proposition. Every correct prediction will be inevitably accompanied by many more wrong ones. Still, it’s fascinating to revisit a bit of cultural ephemera [...]

[VIDEO] Thousands March in Hong Kong in Memory of Liu Xiaobo

AFP HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Thousands took to the streets of central Hong Kong Saturday night holding candles as they marched in memory of pro-democracy Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Veteran activists led the solemn gathering which wove its way [...]

[VIDEO] ‘Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets’ Review: Luc Besson Directs

Pete Hammond writes: Director Luc Besson has long wanted to make the 1967 French graphic serial Valerian and Laureline into a movie since the 70’s. This was even before Star Wars became such a sensation, and in fact many think the Pierre [...]

[VIDEO] ‘Outlander’ Season 3: Starz Sets October Premiere Date & Unveils Key Art

Erik Pedersen reports: The countdown is on. Starz has set an 8 PM Sunday, September 10, premiere for Season 3 of its time-traveling drama Outlander, starring Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan. The premium cable net also released the key art, [...]

12 Things You Didn’t Know About Iron Man’s Suit

Iron Man is one of Marvel’s most successful superheroes, but what do you really know about Iron Man’s suit? Alexandria Ingham writes: Spider-Man Homecoming is almost here. Many fans can’t wait to see Tom Holland in the role of the young [...]

[VIDEO] Screaming Foxes Battle It Out in Japan

The world finally has the answer to the age-old question: What does the fox say? Two foxes were caught in a tense screaming match at the Miyagi Zao Fox Village in Japan. According to animal experts, foxes’ high-pitched call is due to their smaller [...]

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