Category: LIFESTYLE

There are two important foreign dignitaries in Japan right now. One is the President of the United States of America and the other is, well, Justin Bieber. The former is the reason why there ...

The end of an era. Hostess culture magazine Koakuma Ageha will cease publication in the wake of the bankruptcy of its publisher, Inforest Publishing. The title first went on sale in October 2005 ...

Almost no sight says "Tokyo" more than Shibuya's "scramble crossing", the immense intersection in front of the Hachiko exit of the station in which multiple banks of pedestrians converge on each ...

Tears. Tantrums. And a yuru-kyara mascot character. The Public Affairs Section/Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo has produced a very original video promoting studying abroad in ...

Snoopy and green tea? Whatever will they think of next. Actually, this isn't such a big shock, since Snoopy is a popular character in Japan, though this is still a pretty original way to utilize ...

Take two things Japan does very well -- and combine them! Just when you think there isn't much more room for innovation with the world of karaoke, along comes FamilyMart with a new branch, ...

Blackface or a clever marketing campaign? Imagine a female minstrel show with svelte legs and you might have the right image of this Astigu, a Japanese tights brand. The ads feature 11 ...

Nissan has created a fun film of an eight-year-old giving his mom a very nice surprise. Hinata and his mom take a drive in a Nissan Dayz Highway Star. Mrs. Masuda thinks she is going to be ...

Yesterday an extraordinary thing happened. A man who had been in prison since the 1960's finally went free after nearly five decades behind bars for a crime he almost certainly did not ...

In between pushing through a controversial secrecy bill and annoying its Asian neighbors, the Japanese government is hoping to combat the country's chronic birth decline in a pretty unexpected ...

Can the real beneficiaries of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics please stand up? As expected, the biggest impact is going to be felt in the balance sheets of the real estate companies developing the bayside ...

On February 17th, there was yet another incursion on the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. But this time it wasn't posturing nationalists on the Chinese or Japanese side. Instead, it was a bunch of ...

This might be the most bizarre advertising collaboration we've ever heard of... but one guaranteed to become a meme. Welsh-born, naturalized Japanese naturalist (get it?) CW Nicol has loaned his ...

Have our worst dreams come true? After ASEAN, will the Opening Ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games feature a battalion of skimpily clad, underage girls representing Japan?! This nightmare ...

Spring always brings a flurry of sakura (cherry blossom)-themed products, from sweets to stamps, phone apps and more. But we never imagined there would be a pink cheeseburger any time soon! As ...