World Food & Beverage Great Expo

Photos from The World Food And Beverage Great Expo (FABEX) at Tokyo Big Sight last week – including real foods, fake foods and food techs.

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World Food Beverage Great Expo Japan

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Anime Contents Expo 2013

Photos by Danny Choo from the Anime Contents Expo 2013 over the weekend at Makuhari Messe convention center.

Anime Contents Expo 2013

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Tamako Market pilgrimage

A fan’s visit to Kyoto’s Demachi-Masugata shopping street which the scene (not the story) of Tamako Market anime is based on.

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Doraemon is Japan’s most watched movie franchise

Movie distribution company Toho announced Tuesday that the Doraemon movie series has became the most watched in Japanese movie history.

Since the release of Doraemon: Nobita’s Dinosaur in 1980 to this year’s Doraemon: Nobita’s Secret Gadget Museum (teaser above), the Doraemon movie series (34 in total) has now attracted over 100 million viewers, toppling the previous record set by Godzilla which sold 99 million tickets in 28 movies.

Credit: Japantoday

Maki Horikita Weekly Big Comic Spirits

Actress Maki Horikita in No.16 (2013) issue of Weekly Big Comic Spirits Magazine.

Maki Horikita Weekly Big Comic Spirits

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