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Game Freak programmer Fumiya Narita and University of Tokyo professor Takashi Kanai have unveiled a new technique for making water simulations much faster without sacrificing visual quality. The method, called Extended Quadtree Tall Cells, combines two previous techniques to reduce the amount of computation needed for detailed water effects. In tests, it delivered: -2.5–3x faster pressure calculations -Around 1.5x faster overall simulation -Fewer grid cells while keeping water visuals largely intact -Strong results in scenes with lots of small waves, such as rain The technique still has some limitations, including higher memory usage and reduced benefits in calmer water scenes. The researchers have not confirmed whether the techwill be used in a future Pokémon game.

On July 20, 1971, Japan’s first McDonald’s restaurant opened inside the Ginza Mitsukoshi department store. The shop was constructed with extraordinary speed, driven by founder Den Fujita’s firm belief that "all trends begin in Ginza." Due to the extremely limited floor space, customers took their burgers out into the streets of Ginza. This became the catalyst for "tabe-aruki" (eating while walking) — a new cultural phenomenon in Japan. Just one year after its opening, the store broke the world record for single-day sales, a feat that reportedly astonished the U.S. headquarters.

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In May 1962, the only Japanese pilot who ever bombed the United States mainland during World War II stepped off a plane in Brookings, Oregon, with a 400-year-old samurai sword hidden inside his suitcase. In September 1942, Imperial Japanese Navy pilot Nobuo Fujita had launched from submarine I-25 in a tiny floatplane and dropped incendiary bombs on the forests outside Brookings. Nobody was hurt, and rain put the small fires out. Twenty years later, the young Americans of the Brookings Jaycees, many of them U.S. combat veterans, invited their former enemy to their town Azalea Festival. Fujita packed his family's 400-year-old katana for a terrifying reason. He silently vowed that if angry Americans pelted him with rotten eggs, he would draw that ancestral blade and commit traditional seppuku right there to apologize with his life. Instead, American World War II veterans stepped forward, looked him in the eye, and shook his hand with warm smiles. Moved to tears by the grace of small-town Americans, Fujita handed over the 400-year-old sword that had guarded his family for sixteen generations as a pledge of eternal peace. When a timber recession hit Brookings in 1985, Fujita paid 15,000 dollars from his own pocket to fly three Brookings high school students to Japan. And when he died at age eighty-five, his daughter buried part of his ashes beneath an Oregon redwood tree. Only a truly great nation can disarm a samurai with an outstretched hand.