From Hello Kitty to Pikachu, the country changed what the world considers adorable. But do these characters represent joy — ...

Abstract: The recent emergence of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) enables various domain-specific segmentation ... The word-level bounding box as prompts is too coarse for characters, while the ...

A startup launched at Osaka University announced Tuesday that it has applied for government approval to commercially sell heart muscle cell sheets developed using induced pluripotent stem (iPS ...

Masako is not unique. However, this trend is still predominantly a Japanese habit. But why hire female voices for male characters? The first reason is the most obvious: age. Shonen is the biggest ...

US gamers will pay $449.99 for Nintendo’s Switch 2, a significant price bump from the $299 first-generation console.But in Japan, the console will be more affordable. Nintendo developed a ...

Runway’s Gen-4 is an image-to-video AI model It is the successor to last year’s Gen-3 Alpha video generation model The company says the model exhibits high prompt adherence ...

Dubbed Gen-4, the model purports to solve several key problems with AI video generation. Chief among those is the notion of consistent characters and objects across shots. If you've watched any ...

You can search using romaji and Japanese characters, but you can also look up kanji by SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns), multi-radical, and Chinese radicals. Its clear interface allows for ...

As schools look for new methods of building character in addition to academics, Japan's school cleaning model is an inspiring case study in creating responsible citizens at an early stage.

To provide capital growth over the long-term (5-10 years) by investing at least 80% of the Fund's assets in the shares of Japanese companies. At least 80% of assets invested in equities of companies ...

It's almost clobberin' time. On May 10, WWE Games' Twitter/X page revealed the first look at CM Punk's WWE 2k24 Character model. Punk will be part of the ECW Punk Pack, which will be available on May ...

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