One Piece's vibrant world isn't just about epic battles and grand adventures. From the bustling streets of Water 7 to the ...

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the most prolific and popular Ukiyo-e artists in Japan. The word Ukiyo-e means ...

The One-Punch Man manga creator gives Iron Man a stylish upgrade that encapsulates why Marvel needs to give Yusuke Murata his ...

Tokyo-based tour guide Masaki Uotani reveals the city's queer scene to Attitude's travel editor The post Discover Tokyo’s ...

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But the Lawson site has been a particularly hot tourist spot since a social media influencer posted a shot of Japan’s tallest ... who works at a kimono rental shop near the Lawson store, said ...

A native Briton spends nearly 365 days of the year wearing kimono, even though daily use of the traditional Japanese clothing is on the decline among modern Japanese fashionistas. Sheila Cliffe ...

Why aren’t there many Japanese people here? (To my kids, a Japanese person is only someone dressed in a kimono.) Ben Groundwater and family in Japan.Credit: Ben Groundwater This is a nation I ...

Watanabe proudly called himself a himo otoko, a Japanese term that refers to an able-bodied man who is financially dependent on a woman. In February 2024, Watanabe debuted as an online influencer ...

The Konomiya Naked Festival, known as a bizarre festival, was held at Konomiya Jinja shrine in the city of Inazawa, Aichi ...

Japan's Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court's acquittal of a man charged with committing a hit-and-run that resulted in the death of a middle school student in 2015, citing his failure to ...

Police in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, have arrested a 70-year-old woman on suspicion of attempted murder after she strangled an unemployed man in his 40s at his home. According to police, the incident ...