insights from frontier Japan

The three-party team-up of the Hokkaido government, AIRDO, and the Nintendo partner company "Pokémon" (Tokyo) announced on November 8 that starting on December 1 for flights between New Chitose and Haneda, etc., AIRDO will be using a special decorated Boeing 767 (270 seats) with a theme based on characters from the popular game "Pocket Monsters".

A unique ‘Pokémon Fossil Museum’ exhibition that compares real dinosaurs and ammonite with characters that appear in the popular Pocket Monster (Pokémon) game, is being held at the Mikasa City Museum. The exhibition was planned “in the hope of providing an opportunity for children to become interested in science” based on the experiences of a researcher who, as a child, searched illustrated reference books to try and find creatures that resembled Pokémon.

Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science's traveling exhibition "Pokemon Fossil Museum" will open at the Mikasa City Museum in Hokkaido, the country's northernmost main island, from July, allowing visitors to learn about ancient creatures together with characters from the Pokemon video game series.

A "Poké Lid" manhole cover design based on the popular game "Pocket Monsters" has appeared near the fountain plaza in Tomakomai City's Idemitsu Culture Park.