Initial D, a popular manga and anime series that takes place in Gunma, Japan, is collaborating with taxis in Gunma’s Shibukawa city. The collaboration sees taxis in the city wrapped with three different designs based on the series, including one based on protagonist Takumi Fujiwara’s Toyota Sprinter Trueno (AE86).

The University of Tokyo has announced that they will soon offer Metaverse courses to teach engineering in a virtual space. The intention is to provide a new style of learning to a wide range of people including middle and high school students, working adults, and more.

The school featured in the popular light novel, manga, and anime series Haruhi Suzumiya was modeled on real-life Japanese high school Nishinomiya Kita High, located in Japan's Hyogo prefecture. But this real school may soon be consolidated into another school.

Meiji University in Japan has announced that they have developed a device that can alter the appearance and taste of food. It is named TTTV2 which stands for “Transform The Taste and Visual appearance.”

Japanese company Onken made a tweet showing their “coworker HP badges” which began to spread on social media. As the name implies, the badges display an HP bar that workers can pin to themselves to show how much HP they have left in the tank.

Sekai Saionji, one of the heroines from the game and anime series School Days, has made her debut as a VTuber on the YouTube channel of Shiho Kawaragi, who voiced the character in the anime series.

Roopt神楽坂DAO (Roopt Kagurazaka DAO), a share house located in Tokyo that uses NFTs, will open in September. One NFT is worth 30,000 yen (around $220) and can be exchanged for a one month stay at the share house.

Restaurant chain Pronto are set to open their first エビノスパゲッティ(E Vino Spaghetti) restaurant in Tokyo’s Marunouchi Building on June 30. The restaurant will mainly serve pasta and alcohol, but what really sets it apart is that the pasta will be prepared by an automated robot

The Langaku manga reader app’s key feature is that users can customize the amount of English that appears. Someone may start with only 20% of the text in English and increase the amount as they get more comfortable. The manga on offer includes Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, One Piece, My Hero Academia, Spy x Family, and more.

In a survey conducted by the Japanese government, 40% of single men in their 20s gave a response of “0” to a question asking how many people they have been on a date with. When looking at the response to the survey results on social media in Japan, it seems that the majority of people were not surprised.