In the past few years, there have been a handful of popular anime turned into live-action films. A few have been…

Yesterday, it was announced that Kyoto city was going forward with a real-world Pokémon Go event to be held on…

When the PlayStation 5 launched earlier today, there weren’t long lines wrapped around the stores. In Japan and…

Earlier this month, Japanese tabloid Flash spotted famed animator Hayao Miyazaki as he was leaving the house to pick…

When the PlayStation 5 launches this month, Sony won’t be selling the console in stores. Instead, launch day sales…

Sega is selling its arcade business to Genda, a Tokyo-based company involved in arcade game rentals and online crane…

During the 2016 Rio Olympics closing ceremony, then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared out of a large green…

Back in 2016, when Pokémon Go first launched in Japan, the popular augmented reality game began a collaboration with…

Since 2008, Shuhei Yoshida has been the president of SCE Worldwide Studios. Today, Sony announced that Yoshida will…

Each year, the Japanese government honors people for their important cultural contributions. Included in this year’s …

Every business has a starting point. For Japanese arcades, one of them was on department store rooftops.

For decades now, Japanese vending machines have served up an array of interesting, mundane, and useful things.…

Since 1927 the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has been filling the skies of New York with colorful balloon…

Here is as good a place as any to discuss the rise of Donald Trump to the highest office in the land.

E3 2016 starts next week, and with it comes the opportunity to cheer or groan over teases about upcoming games and…

Right now, there are some people in Japan who appear to be doing their best to kill off tattoos. This guy is one of…

Lots of countries don’t just have military training, but extreme military training. China is no exception.

“Doujinshi” (同人誌) is Japanese for fan-created, self-published comics, magazines, and novels. While Japan has strict…

A service company in the Chinese city Handan held “No-Face Day,” which was inspired by the character No-Face from…