So Many People | OSAKA, JAPAN: As northeastern Japan rebuilds and deals with a nuclear crisis, life in Western Japan goes on. ... A Covered Shopping Arcade. Published May 25, 2011.

Japanese arcades not only hang on, but keep getting new games. Here’s why. Arcade game makers own arcades. Some of the biggest corporate arcades in Japan are from Sega, Namco, Taito, and Capcom.

It also has an arcade and food court. Even though the store goes by a different name, shopping at Walmart in Japan is a lot like shopping at Walmart in the United States.

There were arcades in every shopping center. And then, just like that, they all closed.” Why do arcades still thrive in Japan when they have all but vanished in America?

Another one of those shows is Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, now available here in full as a tin DVD boxset. In the community of Abenobashi in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, live the two kids ...

Until about 10 years ago, the central shopping arcade around the Heiwa-dori street in Naha was deserted, with most stores closed and few visitors.

A Japanese sentence is often as mongrel as a Japanese street. While walking through a shopping arcade in Osaka — here a tatami tearoom, there a French cafe, in between a McDonald’s — you ...