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Hanafuda: How a Banned Card Game Defined the Pre-Pokémon Era

Before Mario, Nintendo sold hanafuda cards to the yakuza. Read the 400-year forbidden history of the flower cards that tricked the Shogun.

The company took pains to reassure its Japanese customer base that information about their masturbatory habits was safe.

How did a fully AI-generated manga hit number one in Japan? And what does its success portend for the future of the industry?

The world has moved on from the NFT scam. Japan, however, thinks it's found a nifty new tool to promote regional tourism.

Propagandists have always spread disinformation about Japan. AI has made it worse—and, in some cases, may have put people's lives in danger.

It's a rare move in a country with no legal structure for homeschooling - but the gamer and his parents stand by the family's decision.

It's not just old people who are grousing. Even young Japanese say they resent restaurants sucking up their battery life and bandwidth.

A recent social media post has sparked debate over a longstanding rule of smartphone use that has no basis in fact.

The Children & Families Agency says it's giving up on the system after experts determined the agency didn't have enough data.