34+ min ago  (347+ words) The SDF-1 from the original 1982 Macross TV series is getting a massive new transformable diecast toy later this year, but only in Japan. The SDF-1, or Super Dimension Fortress 1, is a huge transformable battleship known as the Macross in the…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (893+ words) October 8, 2024 at 18: 20 JST With Halloween around the corner, Tokyo administrators are exploring ways to curtail the rise in public drinking, noise and other nuisances in popular neighborhoods that evening. While some municipalities in Tokyo will welcome ghosts and goblins for…...

6+ hour, 36+ min ago  (158+ words) Gundam fans, this is for you! This is the RX-78-2 Gundam from the Robot Spirits line, specifically the A. N. I. M. E. series (which stands for Action New Imagination Memory Emotion). Tamashii Nations used top tech to make this figure incredibly poseable, capturing those…...

14+ hour, 56+ min ago  (591+ words) The sound of knitting needles and conversations filled the hall at Rosebank Union Church on May 23 as members of Knit Wits 4 the Needy Hurlingham group came together for their weekly knitting session dedicated to helping vulnerable communities stay warm. The…...

10+ hour, 29+ min ago  (196+ words) A spectacular underwater encounter was captured in Hanifaru Bay, where a diver swam closely alongside a gathering of giant manta rays during feeding time. Franco Banfi, 65, from Switzerland, filmed the breathtaking footage while diving in the famous marine hotspot known…...

15+ hour, 24+ min ago  (526+ words) I choose you'today, tomorrow, and for every chapter still waiting to be written. To laugh with you, grow with you, and love you through every season of life." Your wedding is more than just a celebration'it's the beginning of a…...

1+ day, 22+ min ago  (283+ words) A Pukekohe local is knitting together a dying art and her love of cinema. After discovering a similar programme overseas, Janice Marcel approached Cinema 3 on Edinburgh Street and Crafts Cinema Pukekohe took shape. The initiative sees crafty people watch films…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (814+ words) A South Carolina man was paddleboarding in Flagler Beach when he decided to take a dip in the ocean after watching dolphins in the swells. He would soon learn the dolphins weren't the only marine life around. Brian Miller, 44, "was…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (372+ words) Tears turned to joy as train rides resumed at the Wodonga Creek Miniature Railway nearly three months after vandals ruined part of the track. Scores of families and excited children descended on the Diamond Park circuit on Sunday May 24 to…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (701+ words) By TAKASHI MIYAZAWA/ Staff Writer May 24, 2026 at 07: 00 JST Yohei Tamura holds prototypes of pet figurines from the "Uchinoko Paint Figure" series at the storefront of a model shop in Matsuyama on April 6. (Takashi Miyazawa) MATSUYAMA--Grieving pet owners can take…...