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Stranger in the Shogun’s City is Masterful History and Storytelling

An historian and scholar of Japan uses her knowledge and talent to bring the story of one 19th-century Japanese woman to life.

Support for Internet Explorer officially ended in June 2022. So why are some workplaces in Japan still writing code for it?

Adults in Japan took to social media to lambaste a new backpack accessory. And then the kids who designed it clapped back.

How the game of pachinko in Japan become one of the country's primary forms of legalized...well, let's not call it gambling, shall we?

A revision to Japan's Broadcasting Act might make it impossible to avoid the NHK guy slapping you with the NHK fee.

Anno Hideaki and Higuchi Shinji's second adaptation of a Showa-era tokusatsu classic isn't exactly deep - but it's a tremendous amount of campy fun.