Tag: Japan

The clash of blades echoes through the snowy mountaintop vista of Ashina Castle. A lone shinobi, Sekiro, faces off against ...

I know our readers are likely buyers with all the amazing Japanese games coming out this year. We’ve already seen ...

You’re likely familiar with “legally distinct” parodies of brand name products if you’ve been watching anime for any time length. ...

Your otaku education is incomplete if you can’t name five yuru-chara off the top of your head. Yuru-chara­ are those ...

Before I get into Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, I have something shameful to admit. I never finished a Yakuza/Like ...

The winter 2024 anime season is almost a third over, and I'm still figuring out what shows I want to ...

The Go Nagai Wonderland Museum in better days. The Go Nagai Wonderland Museum, located in the mangaka’s hometown of Wajima ...

Japan started the year off on a sad note as a major earthquake struck the country on Jan 1st. Let's ...

Just in time for everyone to update their holiday wish lists comes this announcement from Tokyo-based Tsubame Industries. In it, ...

A quick glance at the Japanese and Asian gaming scene reveals a wealth of interesting titles, such as Genshin Impact. ...

The Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association (NAFCA), an incorporated association designed to spread awareness of working conditions for Japanese ...

While many in the West may have a slightly romanticized view of the yakuza, there’s no denying that they are a ...

McDonald's Japan is no stranger to testing the waters with new and unusual menu items, most of which are rather ...

Was last week’s true crime story out of Japan, where a college student insisted he used polite Japanese as he robbed ...

Imagine being a taxi driver in Japan. No, we're not talking about an episode of Oddtaxi. I mean a legit ...

An otaku bucket of chicken? Yep! It's real. Social media is a powerful thing. It allows people all over the ...

Almost fifteen years ago, the supermodel of the world, RuPaul Charles aired the first episode of RuPaul's Drag Race; a ...

I don't think anyone had "viral pandemic" on their bingo board as we left 2019 and entered 2020, but a ...

I'm currently in my Tokyo condo, after attending my son's wedding reception, a small event attended by grandparents who couldn't ...

The Japanese government recently announced that it will cautiously begin accepting foreign tourism again in June. Much to the chagrin ...

The Japanese government recently announced that it will cautiously begin accepting foreign tourism again in June. Much to the chagrin ...

In 2019, through means hitherto unclear, a coronavirus made the zoonotic jump into humans in the vicinity of a wet ...

JAST USA released Closed GAME digitally last year, and if you haven't played it yet, you're missing out on a sexy ...

The two things I hate the most about adult life are: Car Shopping Moving Since moving to Japan four years ...