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Japan may give away 10,000 free round-trip tickets

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 3:30pm
 
Want to travel to Japan? The country may make that a lot easier in order to boost tourism and prove that traveling there is still safe despite the earthquake/nuclear meltdown it dealt with earlier this year: they're talking about giving 10,000 free round-trip tickets away.

Miniature holodeck lets you play with anime characters in 3D

Adario Strange
Friday, September 16, 2011 - 3:39am
 
In America we dream of interactive virtual environments to live out our wildest fantasies, just like in Star Trek. In Japan, they are working just as hard on the same tech, but the reoccurring theme is a desire to bring their anime characters closer to the real world. And now they have moved one step closer to that un-reality.

20 self portraits of Tokyo's 'Levitating Girl' Natsumi Hayashi

Kevin Hall
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 5:12pm
 
For a while, Japan's Natsumi Hayashi was running a pretty standard photography blog, filled with pictures of her cat, food, weird sights from Tokyo and the people in her life. Then she took a photo she called "Today's Levitation" (the first picture in our gallery below), and that appeared to open up a whole new world for her. After that, her blog started to fill up with mind-boggling shots of Hayashi floating in midair in all kinds of places. So, how's she do it?

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