Does your business commit copyright infringement when it publishes something in the Studio Ghibli style, such as a social media post promoting your business? If that’s not legal, are you ...

The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.

Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

Are meme coins still just a joke—or have they become crypto’s most unexpected goldmine? In 2025, the answer is clear: meme coins aren’t just surviving; they’re thriving. From internet humor to serious ...

Hayao Miyazaki Looking Stressed is an image macro meme showing Studio Ghibli co-founder and animator Hayao Miyazaki leaning back in his chair with his eyes ...

A mother was stunned after finding out her son’s textbook featured JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure illustrations from Hirohiko Araki.

At the same time, the internet was having a field day with another stalwart of Japanese anime, deploying generative AI to ...

Hopes are high on the revival of the Manila-Bicol high speed rail system, whose development was abandoned by China, as the Japanese government expressed interest in funding the feasibility study of ...

While many countries around the world have voiced their concerns and criticism, Japanese citizens have taken a slightly different approach: trolling the U.S. auto industry and making memes out of ...

In early February, Ehime Gov Tokihiro Nakamura and about 80 local business representatives visited Chennai, one of India's major cities, to participate in commercial meetings with companies and ...

The Japanese government has launched an expert panel to study why the wildfires that broke out in recent months spread so widely. The panel, which was jointly launched by the Fire and Disaster ...