The beginner's guide to arcade culture in Japan

He's fresh from a shopping holiday in Japan and Dan Taipua has seen some awesome, awesome shit. In the 2nd and final part of this series he passes on all that he has learnt to any retro game tourists thinking of hitting the Japanese arcades.
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Modi Never Bought Enough COVID-19 Vaccines for India. Now the Whole World Is Paying

“India’s vaccine nationalism—along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s empty showboating—not only plunged India into an unexpected vaccine shortage, but also put countries banking on vaccines from India at great risk,” writes Debasish Roy Chowdhury.
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A Literal Mouse Plague Is Terrorizing Towns in Eastern Australia Right Now

While the rest of the world continues to tackle the global pandemic, in eastern Australia, waves of mice are flooding farms and towns.
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Enigmatic Designs Found in India May Be The Largest Images Ever Made by Human Hands

Hidden in the vast, arid expanses of India's Thar Desert lie mysterious old drawings carved into the land.
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In Japan most people want to cancel the Olympics, but the government won’t listen

Prime minister Yoshihide Suga risks playing host to a coronavirus spike, says Koichi Nakano of Sophia University, Japan
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Invasive species costing Africa $3.66 tn a year: study

Invasive species introduced by human activity are costing African agriculture some $3.66 trillion every year—around 1.5 times the combined gross domestic product of all African countries—new research showed Thursday.
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Op-Ed: What can we do to help the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Stay out of it

What if the pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel camps in the U.S. focused all their rhetoric, political action and funds on reconciliation and justice?
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