We can see the lasting images of the firebombings and the atomic bombs in the works of artist and director Osamu Tezuka and his successor, Hayao Miyazaki. Both had witnessed the devastation of the ...

Hair stylist Yuto Numata cuts the hair of a member of the Iizuka High School soccer club in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Feb. 28, 2025. (Mainichi/Yukiko Tange) IIZUKA, Fukuoka -- Can getting one ...

Nintendo has confirmed which GameCube games will be coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day. Featuring clearer image quality and higher resolution, customizable controls, and online multiplayer ...

A giant white rabbit's attack on the Vatican reveals a truth kept hidden: demons are real, and they want something from humanity. As the White House scrambles to figure out what that is and what ...

Following the infamous crash of 1983, the North American console industry needed a hit, and Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka duly provided one. World 1-1 remains perhaps the most famous first stage ...

In this kingdom, status is everything, and those who live in the slums are considered neither citizens nor worthy of life. Zenos grew up there, and a chance encounter with a strange man in a black ...

Illustrated by Tezuka Osamu based on a story by Sakai Shichima, it was called Shin Takarajima (New Treasure Island). Sakai was an industry veteran who had worked widely as a manga artist and ...

"Working with the public administration, we will be the last line of defense for the protection of babies' lives," said managing director Motonobu Nakamura at a press conference at the metropolitan ...

At the press conference, the social welfare corporation's executive director Motonobu Nakamura said, "Considering the reality of abandonment cases, there is a rising need to protect mothers and ...

Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct was filled with tons of announcements. Most of these were the next slate of games coming to the game company’s portable hybrid console the Nintendo Switch, but one ...

Moreover, we discovered that the same enzymatic site (E172) affected both the PPA and phosphatase activities of PPA2, similar to that reported for other PPA family members (Tezuka et al, 2013), which ...