Meanwhile, the Switch's portability would have made it easy for players to maintain care of their pets ... for the 3DS in 2011. Considering the success of other cozy simulation games on Switch ...

it was found that there are approximately 6.8 million pet dogs and 9 million pet cats across Japan. Companion animals have become integral parts of people’s lives — especially as the population ages — ...

Senior Researcher Yu Taniguchi of the National Institute for Environmental Studies is seen with his dog in a photo provided by himself. TOKYO -- Owning a pet is known to be healing for both mind ...

A nonprofit animal care center is continuing to provide shelter for the pets of evacuees from the massive Noto Peninsula earthquake that struck over a year ago. The Nihon Dobutsu Kaigo Center in ...

The Nintendo 3DS title Kirby: Planet Robobot may be coming ... A pair of former Nintendo employees talk about Kirby games, and explain why the games' box art sometimes differed in the west.

One of the big shifts the game industry has seen over the past decade is that many Japanese developers are now fully embracing PC versions of the their games. While Capcom took some time to warm ...

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley was released in 2014, which marked the first game to be developed by Tabot ... Harvest Moon: Skytree Village launched on Nintendo 3DS in 2016. Following a similar ...

OSAKA—Feline-friendly Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui hopes to make the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo the first one to allow pets, but a number of hurdles stand in the way. The Japan Association for the 2025 ...

Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch, and Cuisineer for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Switch are the highlights of this week’s Japanese video game releases.

Get the full list of this week’s Japanese game releases below. It should be noted that Gematsu will receive a small percentage of money from purchases made through Play-Asia links. You can also ...