SAYAKA Releases Love Me Music Video on YouTube August 24
The release follows the 460,000-view performance of her debut single "7 years" and continues SAYAKA's solo output with a Korea-shot video carrying a personal lyrical message.
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Chiikawa Movie Holds First Place as No New Films Enter Japan's Top 10
The Chiikawa film's third weekend outperformed its second, a rare upward swing driven by repeat-viewer incentives like the pullback car gift and farewell screenings, while the entire top 10 stayed closed to new releases.
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Streamer Yo Marks 1 Million YouTube Subscribers With Limited Merch
The milestone caps a period of expansion for Yo beyond her Twitch base, including the "Yogon Channel" project with former pro gamer GON that reached 300,000 subscribers in about six months.
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Perfect World's NTE Passes 2 Billion Yuan In Global Sales
The sales pace has slowed from launch, but NTE is still adding roughly 14 billion yen in a month and a half, with official platform versions accounting for about 60% of the total.
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Bitland Opens Pre-Registration for AI Business Product Ownr
Ownr automates the steps after business creation, addressing the gap between generating ideas and verifying market demand, which Bitland identifies as a key bottleneck in modern business.
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Monster Hunter Now Adds Gunlance Event and Train Play Update
The train play update, which lets players hunt by selecting the "I am not the driver" dialog, drew immediate gratitude from players, with some commenting they have waited three years for the change.
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Apple-Guiding Gravity Puzzle 'YOU ARE NEWTON' Opens Steam Page
Saji, known for browser puzzles and riddles, is bringing his first Steam release with 60 stages and a stage editor, signaling a move from free web games to a paid PC audience.
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WOLF JOURNEY, a 2D Action Game Set in Japan, Is Now Free on itch.io
The free browser release opens a planned series where the wolf protagonist travels across Japan region by region, with a target of six chapters and 18 stages total.
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Skillbridge Releases New Version of AI Tool That Writes Replies to Your Boss
The redesigned interface makes the reply drafts and follow-up steps visible on one screen, letting users move from a drafted message to a job consultation without leaving the tool.
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Square Enix Drops Seven Final Fantasy X Apparel Items With Lit Baff Apt
The collection treats in-game world details, like Blitzball League merchandise and Lulu's Moogle doll, as the design source rather than simply printing character art, giving longtime players wearable items tied to specific FF10 scenes and lore.
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Ibaraki Board of Education Adopts AI Interview Service for Principal Recruitment
The prefecture is using AI interviews to draw out candidates from diverse backgrounds, including the private sector, without requiring teaching licenses, as it pushes site-led school reforms.
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DOES Marks 20th Anniversary With Three-Month Release Series
The first new song in about two years arrives with a Dazai-inspired theme and a Bungo Stray Dogs artist collaboration as the band expands overseas.
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Zeroboard Day 2026 Conference Set for October 15 With Kunio Ito and Takahiro Anno
The conference lineup, anchored by Ito's keynote on linking financial and non-financial information to corporate value, signals a push to position AI and data platforms as core tools for sustainability management beyond simple reporting.
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Tori Game, the 1999 Free Game, Returns on Steam August 25
The Steam release brings the 1999 free game back to PC with modern features, broadening its availability beyond mobile.
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Studio Sasanqua Opens 7 Mid-Career Game Development Roles
The studio founded by the Visions of Mana director is staffing up for in-house console development while Ozawa plans to pursue collaborations with other companies.
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Jounetsu Tairiku Trails Horror Writer Suneji Ahead of Midsummer Season
The program's close-up look at Suneji's daily life and creative process, including her view that horror's main characters are people, not ghosts, frames the writer behind the boom's biggest hit as a subject of mainstream documentary interest.
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Like a Dragon Stage Play Gets Exclusive DMM TV Live Stream
The stage adaptation brings the top 10 characters voted by fans in the series' 20th anniversary election to the screen, a combination the main games would not likely feature.
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Matsuo Institute and JPiX Build AI That Reproduces Executive Review Thinking
The project turns tacit executive judgment into a trained model, so review staff can run early-stage issue checks against accumulated experience before internal discussions begin.
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Wistoria: Wand and Sword Season 2 Blu-ray Volume 1 Set for August 26
The Blu-ray release packages the season's first six episodes with original creator content, giving collectors a reason to buy physical media.
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Gundam Requiem for Vengeance Blu-ray BOX Lands August 26
The home video release gives the Netflix-distributed series a physical edition centered on Yamane's mechanical art and Roget's score, after the show entered Netflix's Global Top 10 and Japan's weekly Top 10 for two consecutive weeks.
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SAMANSA Adds Four Short Films For Third Week Of August
The weekly lineup keeps SAMANSA's catalog fresh, pairing an Academy Award-nominated animation with lesser-known genre work to keep the service's promise of variety for its 490-yen monthly subscription.
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EVeM Launches Sengoku Management Scouter Diagnostic
The diagnostic applies EVeM's management patterns to a Sengoku warlord format, turning an internal training method into a public tool for managers to assess their own strengths.
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Michael Jackson's 'Beat It' Short Film to Screen in Theaters for the First Time
The theatrical debut of the 'Beat It' short film ties directly into the birthday-week release of the 'Michael' biopic, giving audiences a rare big-screen look at the original music film that inspired the feature.
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Kawamori's Meikyu no Shiori Blu-ray Set for August 26
Kawamori's first original theatrical feature anime gets a premium home video release with nearly 200 minutes of bonus material, a sign of how the production is being packaged for collectors after its January nationwide run.
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