Never mind that Studio Ghibli director and founder Hayao Miyazaki famously denounced AI-generated art as “ an insult to life itself .” Both the Pikachu protester and the viral Studio Ghibli-esque ...

Japanese manga artist Ryo Tatsuki, famed for predicting past disasters, warns of a massive tsunami in July 2025. Her ...

Admirers of the Japanese animation studio are using a new update from ChatGPT to create portraits and memes inspired by the distinct artistic style popularized by filmmaker and studio co-creator ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct revealed a lot of new information about the system yesterday, and one of the tidbits you may have noticed is that Japan is getting a Japanese-language only version of ...

The release of the latest image generator on OpenAI's ChatGPT has triggered an online flood of memes featuring images done in the style ... close to finalising a $40 billion funding round led by Japan ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa ...

TOKYO :Tokyo-based investment firm Japan Activation Capital (JAC) said on Thursday it had closed its second fund at 77 billion yen ($511.93 million), bringing the total amount it has raised from ...

Tucked away in the mountain range of the Saga Prefecture, on the western island of Kyushu, Ureshino is home to some of Japan’s most coveted onsens, run by more than 30 hotels and ryokans ...

For a country as safe and orderly as Japan, the terrorist attack was an unimaginable shock. It came just two months after the Great Hanshin earthquake, a 6.9-magnitude disaster that killed more ...

Of Real Housewives? Of JD Vance? OpenAI released a new version of their image generation technology, and people are using it to recreate memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation ...

The incident, involving high-level officials and resulting in heavy criticism online, has sparked a wave of internet memes and reactions. Mike Waltz added the Atlantic journalist to the Signal ...

Meme-makers could not leave that alone. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and ...