In 2003, anime auteur Kon Satoshi released Tokyo Godfathers, an anime Christmas classic. Find out more about this socially and seasonally relevant film.
In 2016, a former pirate manga website tried to take a current pirate hentai anime website legit. In a new paper, a researcher explores how it all went wrong – and what the failure says about hentai’s place in the larger US adult entertainment industry.
Love Japanese food? Want to do something a little more hands-on while visiting Tokyo? Here’s why you should consider a cooking class – and how to find one that fits your dietary needs.
Is a word of the year the Word of the Year if most of the people who hear it don’t know what it means? That’s the debate happening in Japan as the annual U-CAN award goes to a term that doesn’t seem to ring many bells.
Wanna attend a Japanese high school like in your favorite anime? A company in Japan is inviting tourists to attend an abandoned campus in Chiba and live out an authentic Showa high school experience.
The Subway brand in Japan is dying. Over half of the store’s chains have closed in the past 10 years. Japan’s Watami, however, thinks it can turn the struggling franchise around. Why has Subway failed to catch on here? And can Watami succeed in making it “more Japanese”?
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