The Festival of Japanese pop culture, titled Merah! Merah! Anime Japan!! (MMAJ) 2026, marks its first year held in Jakarta, ...

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Indian creator Sarthak Sachdeva traveled 6,000 km to Japan to visit Doraemon's real-life inspiration He filmed a quiet neighborhood resembling Nobita and Doraemon's iconic setting from the anime ...

After a typhoon hits Nobita's town, he and Doraemon discover a wind sprite who, with some help from Doraemon's 22nd-century tech, takes them and their friends to a fantastic world of wind and storm ...

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