Nintendo has warned that it may not be able to meet Nintendo Switch 2 demand in Japan "approximately 2.2 million people" have applied to buy one there Pre-orders are currently live in the US and ...

Some of the biggest Hollywood actors head to Japan to collect huge paychecks and star in some very fun, and sometimes often weird, commercials. Here's a list of just some of the stars that have popped ...

The five covers of T’s annual Culture issue — which this year is devoted entirely to Japan and its outsize cultural influence ...

In the rest of the world — where Korean restaurants, music and film have transformed popular culture — the discovery of ...

There was one cylindrical projection and a knobbly area on the inside of each of the left and right legs. When one projection rubbed the knobbly area on the other, it might make a sound just like ...

Authorities in Japan’s Nagano prefecture are on high alert after a bear attacked three people in Iyama ... Prefectural data shows there were 1,430 bear sightings in rural communities in the ...

Then the world realized that Suntory also makes some very fine whisky, with its Hakushu brand becoming one of the flagbearers for Japanese whisky. And then some very smart people at Suntory said “Hey, ...

Conservative lawmakers decry a change of the surname rule in the Civil Code as an attack on traditional values and tie it to ...

Morioka is perhaps most famous for its noodle ... “Most people travel towards Kyoto and Osaka,” said the East Japan Rail Company. “(But) there are many interesting locations north of Tokyo ...

When the Tsukiji fish market closed, the outer market was expected to die – yet here we are today, shoulder to shoulder, ...

The answer, if you’ve passed the top half of Harris Street in Ultimo this month, appears for many people to be “yes”. Age.3, one of Japan’s most famous ... was in there too, having flown ...