From Hello Kitty to Pikachu, the country changed what the world considers adorable. But do these characters represent joy — ...

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

MLB has announced a new anime campaign featuring baseball stars from around the league, with an Astros player represented in the Japanese animation promotion.

Travelling to Japan was our dream family holiday for over a decade and with three 20-plus-year-olds and two fifty-plus-year-olds there was a great deal of ...

Travel writer David Placher took in a sumo wrestling match and visited the Daikoku car experience while visiting Tokyo.

The overwhelming popularity of artist Takashi Murakami's MLB Tokyo Series merchandise has fueled another round of colorful ...

Identifying the best “action” in anime is a tricky endeavor. Sometimes, anime’s purest bursts of kinetic excitement pop off in otherwise downbeat films, or at random in shows seemingly uninterested in ...

Along the way to the famed Takayu Onsen hot springs in this northeast Japan city, this reporter spotted a giant stone robot ...

Mugen Train" turned out to have the momentum of a runaway locomotive at the box office. Despite being released during the pandemic, the theatrical anime adaptation of "Demon Slayer’s Mugen Train" arc ...

A roughly six-meter-tall Evangelion Unit 01 statue made its appearance in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Sunday as part of a ...

New music festival in Yokohama presented a wide range of entertainment, from artists who have drawn the attention of the ...

Tokyo officials were overjoyed after the Japanese capital was named the world’s best large city in a leading U.S ... coexisting alongside innovative anime and the latest pop culture in a ...