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Image: Nintendo We’ve already heard a lot about the success of Splatoon 3 in Japan this year, and now it’s taken out another award. The third entry in the popular team-based squid shooter has officially been crowned the top searched game in the Yahoo! Japan Search Awards. Yes, it’s a thing. Yahoo! Japan shared multiple search categories and Splatoon 3 was the most searched in the gaming category. Some other titles to join it include the Pokémon games, Bandai Namco’s hit Elden Ring in third… Source link

Yuzuru Hanyu. (Kyodo) Yuzuru Hanyu, Japan’s two-time Olympic gold medalist, became a figure who saw the sharpest increase in search queries from last year and claimed the title of “this year’s face as chosen by the public,” the popular Yahoo Japan web portal said Monday. Among the other figures who were searched far more frequently on the Japanese portal were actress Wakana Matsumoto, boy band Naniwa Danshi and comedian JP. Matsumoto appeared in a TV drama about a rich… Source link

The TechCrunch newsroom fears only one thing: the coming of April 1. Because, I’m just going to say it, the tech industry isn’t very funny. But Google Japan’s ongoing series of ridiculous keyboards, where they completely commit to the joke, suggests we may have found the first known exception. The latest is the “Gboard Bar Version,” (or stick version depending on the translation), a keyboard about 1.6 meters feet long (down from 2.4 meters in the prototype) with all the… Source link

With no deal yet to end Major League Baseball’s lockout, it’s unclear when the 2022 season will get started. Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper, clearly, doesn’t see that happening anytime soon. On Monday, shortly after reports that the league is content to miss a month of games amid the standoff, Harper seems to now be looking for somewhere else to play. He posted a photo to his Instagram story that showed him wearing a Yomiuri Giants jersey, a team that plays in Tokyo in Japan’s… Source link

Hideki Matsuyama, of Japan, celebrates after putting on the champion’s green jacket after winning the Masters golf tournament on Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) AUGUSTA, Ga. — Japan has its first ever green jacket and, for that matter, its first ever men’s major championship. On Sunday, Hideki Matsuyama, blazing a trail started by the likes of Jumbo Ozaki, Isao Aoki and Tommy Nakajima before him, ended the Japanese drought, winning the Masters.  Slipping on… Source link