How much fans spend on their oshi depends. According to a recent survey by Japanese marketing company CDG and Oshicoco, an ...

Amid this online divide, G-Dragon continues to move forward with his solo music comeback. His latest album, Übermensch, was released in February 2025, marking his first studio album in 12 years and ...

From a Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal love story to new releases from Spike Lee and Wes Anderson, these are the films you ...

A viral TikTok captured the moment a waitress in Japan transformed a new mom's life during dinner by offering to carry her newborn so she and her husband could enjoy their meal.

Throughout its history, the country has taken imports and changed them into something else entirely.

Convenience stores, ice and whisky first came as U.S. imports. Then, they were reinvented.

They’ve been all over the internet in recent weeks, but AI-generated artwork in the style of Studio Ghibli (the animation studio behind films such as My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away) could soon ...

Live-action video game movies have only recently stopped being massive financial gambles or direct-to-video slop. These never ...

A video of popular streamer Ludwig commenting on how Thomas "Sykkuno" would react to Gawr Gura's graduation from Hololive has garnered attention on social media.

Japanese work culture can be many things: diplomatic, hierarchical, conformist, machine-like and even suffocating. Globally, Japan is known for its hard-working salarymen who work long hours for ...

She speaks to a producer of these films as well as a self-confessed paedophile to try and discover just why some Japanese culture seems to encourage inappropriate exploitation and sexualisation of ...

But something really seems to have changed now that we have the second visitor from the U.S. arriving in Japan with a gun in nearly as many ... On April 8, a Kansai International customs agent felt a ...