Developer Bertrand Quenin recently released an open-source project called "Interpreter" that aims to provide real-time translation for Japanese retro games. The tool can capture Japanese text ...

Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering ...

This year’s Japanese literature in English translation was yet again ruled by a clowder of cozy cat fiction and the occasional crime story. But 2025 wasn’t without some surprises. Two ghostly figures ...

The shortlist for the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize was announced on December 1, including both fiction and nonfiction translated from Japanese into English. This year, the prize ...

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens will offer workshops, demonstrations, and cultural activities throughout December, including ikebana classes, tea ceremony instruction, Tea Day festivities on ...

It’s a common experience for bookworms: You buy a new novel or nonfiction title and place it on your shelf or nightstand, but then you don’t actually read it. Instead, that book joins a growing pile ...

Here at Hackaday Central, we fancy that we know a little something about Linux. But if you’d tasked us to run any GUI program inside a Linux terminal, we’d have said that wasn’t possible. But, it ...

Magical Librarian Ariana: The Books of the Seven Heroes for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch, and Sword of the Sea for PlayStation 5 and PC are the highlights of this week’s Japanese video ...

The Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen 10 is a laptop with a 15.3 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel, 240 Hz display, support for up to an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point processor, up to 128GB of RAM, and up to ...

Android’s Linux Terminal app can now run graphical Linux apps in the latest Canary build, a major step forward for the feature. A new “Display” button launches a graphical environment, letting users ...

In 1942, the mother of a toddler was given a shocking order: She was told that her child must be sent to a detention facility without her. That was the real-life dilemma faced by the main character of ...

For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software development. But as agentic AI grows more powerful and vibe coding takes off, a ...