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First time visitors notice them right away: Sickness masks. People in Japan wear them for numerous reasons,…

During Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent trip to Israel, he and his wife Akie dined with Israeli Prime…

Last night in Tokyo, a 30-something-year-old tourist from Singapore made a wrong turn, driving a rental MariCar (the…

Did you just arrive in Japan? Oh dear. Bad timing. I’m sure you’ll have fun, but there are better times to visit. Why…

There are a lot of cool sequences in God of War. Let’s talk about the coolest one.

There’s a telling scene very early on in the new God of War, in the denouement of an exhausting battle sequence that…

The Sega Saturn doesn’t only live on in our memories, but as a bathroom scale in Japan.

The Witcher 3’s Geralt of Rivia spends most of his time fighting. But for all the mountaintop battles and magic…

Overwatch got its spring event yesterday, which includes a new player-versus-environment mode where players can take…

Grade schoolers across Japan carry leather backpacks called “randoseru” (ランドセル). Traditionally, kids have carried…