Japanese soft serve, known as softcream, has been a beloved sweet treat in the country for decades. Here's what's so ...
In the warm glow of the country’s jazz cafés, a subculture of vinyl aficionados is cultivating the kind of shared sensory ...
Japan was once at the very center of the global video game industry in Nintendo’s 1980s and 1990s heyday. While it is now ...
Located in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Fukamachi and Haru-no-Ogawa Parks, the blue and orange toilets appear like beacons. They can be ...
It is still possible for a population in decline, even as severely as Japan’s, to recover, but it requires serious cultural reexamination. Japan released a report last month announcing that last year, ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Japan Culture Day, also known as Bunka no Hi, is November 3 and this year, the Buffalo History Museum is hosting a celebration. The museum and Friends of the Japanese Garden are ...
America used to be the archetypal “soft power” country, but sushi, anime, and a different way of life place it in the land of the rising sun for Gen Z.
This year will be the first time the UK's Japanese cultural festival will be held outside London [Hyper Japan] The UK's biggest celebration of Japanese culture will come to Manchester for the first ...
The poignancy of five Japanese ballplayers returning to their home country as Major League stars resonated with the baseball ...
On my first morning in Tokyo, a barista in a café near Ueno Station served my coffee with a big smile and two short bows. The cashier was just as kind and patient, though I do not speak Japanese.