Apple would rather you not blow up teen couples on your iPhone, asks developer to edit video game
Casey Baseel
In a lot of ways, digital distribution of video games is a great thing, as it allows developers to easily add new content to a title after its release. It’s a double-edged sword, though, and that same streamlined pathway from programmer to player can also be used to quickly make changes that take things away.
A few weeks ago, we took a look at a smartphone game whose lonely, jaded protagonist and his mystical, jaded companion use their powers to make affectionate couples meet with a host of calamities, including straight blowing them up. Apple, however, is not cool with this sort of vengeful fantasy, and so the iOS version of the game is being toned down and given a new name since the original title, Explode, Real Types! no longer describes the game’s contents.
As we talked about last month, Uehara Labo’s new mobile game called Riaju Bakuhatsu Shiro! references “real types,” the term used by the more bitter factions of Japanese otaku to describe people who have strong relationships with, well, real people. It’s especially used when talking about people in an active and healthy romantic relationship, and those who can’t stand to see others enjoying their time in the real world had already made “Explode, real types!” a jealous rallying cry on the Internet and social media before the game’s development.
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- Officials at the justice ministry say that, for the first time in more than two decades, the number of foreign residents who overstay their visas is rising.
- The officials say about 41,000 foreigners are currently violating their visa status,which is still way down from the peak of 299,000 in 1993.
- A tourism promotion group in Asakusa held a drill designed to help visitors from abroad deal with being “far from home during a disaster.” About 700 people took part.
- Authorities at the environment ministry have banned exports of Asian brown pond turtles. They say the critters from Okinawa are being threatened by over hunting.
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Japan's population falls for 4th straight year
Japan’s population has fallen for the fourth year running, falling back to a level it was last at in 2000, with more than one in four people now aged 65 or older, the internal affairs ministry said.
The population dropped by 0.17%, or 215,000 people, to 127,083,000 as of October 1 last year, according to the data released on Friday. The figure includes long-staying foreigners.
The number of people aged 65 or over rose by 1.1 million to 33 million and now outnumber those aged 14 or younger by two to one.
The demographic shift is due to a combination of a low birthrate and long life expectancy.
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