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Dragon Ball theme park, bigger than Tokyo Disneyland, announced, but not for Japan【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 22, 2024 - Tweet
Dragon Ball Theme Park will be built in a different part of the world from where the global anime/manga hit was born.
- Japan, W Asia
- (Akira Toriyama • Amusement Parks • anime • Arabia • Dragon Ball • Dragon Ball Theme Park • manga • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • theme parks • video)
Our Japanese reporter falls in love with “Lebanese-style gyudon”【SoraKitchen】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 31, 2022
”It’s super easy and soaked with umami!”
- Japan, W Asia
- (Arabia • beef bowls • COK • cooking • food • gyudon • internationalism • Lebanon • Middle East • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • SNO • SoraKitchen)
MLB pitcher Yu Darvish throws a curveball of sensibility into the Yasuda hostage controversy
- Master Blaster
Oct 28, 2018
And now a lesson in Internet civility from the American League strike-out leader of 2013.
- Japan
- (baseball • hostage • jiko sekinin • jumpei yasuda • Middle East • MLB • Syria • twitter • Yu Darvish)
Love Live!’s popularity continues to soar, anime appears in Qatar Airways in-flight entertainment
- Casey Baseel
Nov 6, 2015
Following their conquest of Japan, the high school idols of hit anime Love Live! have their eyes set on the rest of the world, with an international release for their first theatrical feature. But even that might not be a big enough stage for the animated vocalists. They’re now on their way to taking over the skies as well, since you can now watch Love Live! anime on selected flights on, of all carriers, Qatar Airways.
- C Asia, Japan
- (airplanes • anime • Idols • love live • Middle East • otaku • Qatar Airways)
Terrorists release third video of Japanese hostage, say it will be his last
- ロケットニュース24
Jan 28, 2015
More than a week has passed since terrorist organization ISIS released its first video of Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto. Days later, in a second video, a voice believed to be Goto’s was heard stating that Yukawa had been killed by the terrorists.
Now, a third statement has been released, in which a man identifying himself as Goto says that he has only 24 hours left before he will be murdered as well.
- Global, Japan
- (hostages • Isis • Kenji Goto • Middle East • terrorism)
Japanese student suspected of planning to join Islamic State fighters in Syria
- Fran W
Oct 7, 2014
A Japanese university student has been questioned by police about plans to go abroad to join the Islamic State militant group. The 26-year-old man, who is living in Tokyo on a leave of absence from Hokkaido University, was planning to leave Japan for Syria on Tuesday, but had his passport confiscated by police on Monday. He was questioned on suspicion of “preparing or plotting to wage war against a foreign state in a personal capacity”.
The man is thought to have responded to an advertisement in a second-hand bookshop in Akihabara, Tokyo, which asked for people willing to travel to Syria.
- Japan
- (Islamic State • Middle East • Syria)
The Breathtaking Allure of the Stained Glass of Nasir al- Mulk Mosque in Iran
- Karen Bremer Masuda
Nov 16, 2012
During a recent trip to Iran, RocketNews24 correspondent Photographer Koach visited the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz and was absolutely blown away by its extensive colored stained glass facade.
Following his report on why Iranians are the kindest people in the world, here are his thoughts on the beautiful piece of architecture and the morning sunlight that shines through it.
- W Asia
- (Iran • Middle East • Mosque • stained glass)
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