Since the Japanese anime boom of the past few decades, Akihabara has been a refuge for the otaku — someone who would “go ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A research team has found that Japanese people tend to be more easily persuaded by the illiberal narratives of authoritarian regimes than by mainstream messages from ...

AHMEDABAD: The Congress on Wednesday said its idea of nationalism binds people together, while the "pseudo-nationalism" of the BJP-RSS seeks to divide them. The party made the assertion in its ...

Japanese banking subsidiary SMBC Consumer Finance ... surveyed regretted spending money in video games, the amount of people who purchased microtransactions increased by almost 6% from 2024 ...

A clip of Twitch streamer Matthew “Mizkif’ has surfaced online where he calls Japanese people NPCs (non-playable characters). The streamer was traveling with his friend Shannon, who asked him ...

Japanese people don’t want to be elevated versions of themselves, he says; they want to be someone else altogether, which is why kawaii culture, or the embrace of cuteness and childlike ...

Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida has called NieR: Automata the "game that changed everything", as it was responsible for reviving the Japanese games industry on its release. Speaking to ...

Japan's population fell to 120.3 million as of October 2024, official data showed on Monday, marking a record fall of 898,000 people from the previous year. Japan's birth rate is among the lowest ...

Nintendo opened a lottery in Japan that would grant access to pre-order the upcoming Switch 2 game console. To no one's surprise, except perhaps Nintendo's, millions of people signed up for the ...

Japan Estimates Feared Megaquake Could Cause $1.8 Trln in Damage, Kill 300,000 People TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy could lose as much as $1.81 trillion in the event of a long-anticipated ...