Japan

Founded in 2000, AlphaDream was originally known as Alpha Star and was staffed with people who had formerly been at S…

Don’t expect a Hollywood version of Nausicaä. As NHK reports, Hayao Miyazaki has turned down that offer. But you can…

One of Japan’s greatest, if not the greatest, manga creators is having his work tapped into with the power of AI.…

Remember pagers? Maybe not! If you were around in the 1990s, you might’ve carried a pager in case someone wanted to…

The brand new Pokémon TV anime will star not one, but two trainers as the main protagonists.

The Promised Neverland’s live-action film adaptation will hit Japanese theaters in late 2020.

Shoji Kawamori’s career in anime has spanned four decades. While still in his teens, Kawamori joined the industry in…

This is Hamako Mori. At 89, she’s not new to video games. She has been playing them for nearly four decades.

On September 23, 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai (koppai means “cards”) in Kyoto, Japan. Originally…

Over the past few years, Hideo Kojima’s Twitter accounts have been tweeting in Japanese, his native language, and…

Last month, a monochrome cafe opened in Tokyo’s Shin-Okubo neighborhood. Called the 2D Cafe, it looks like a manga…

Earlier this month, SNK announced the Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro. It’s packed with 20 built-in games, which weren’t…

If there’s one thing Yoshitaka Murayama knows better than most people in the world, it’s how to bring Japanese…