Japanese folklore has been a mainstay in anime for ages. Inuyasha, Natsume's Book of Friends, and Mushishi are some of the ...

Walk through Japan’s energetic urban heart and see ... Beside him stood the elegant older woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat against the morning sun. “You’re stuck with me,” she said.

An outsider may not always be able to share the joke, but the Japanese certainly do laugh; what's more, they laugh in many different ways at a wide spectrum of things ... and passing the hat. Rakugo ...

Well, it doesn’t get much more portable than a hat keyboard, now does it? Every October 1st, Google Japan likes to celebrate the 101-key keyboard by building something revolutionary off the top ...

The official Japanese X (or Twitter account) for Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End shared a visual of protagonist Frieren and Fern in Halloween themed attire. The illustration features both characters in ...

Men sport wide-brimmed cowboy hats and leather boots ... She plans to expand internationally, exporting yartsa to places like Japan, Korea, and Malaysia. Within a decade, she says, her worms ...

Japan, stuck in a liquidity trap, faced a particularly deep economic crisis between 1991 and 2001. The country was actually experiencing a liquidity trap: It seemed like everything Japan’s ...

Two mint oil purchasing managers from Japan, a man and a woman ... talkative, sporting a wide-brimmed Outback hat, plaid farm shirt and jeans. He shows off the distilling equipment.

The tiny satellite built in Japan will test the suitability of timber as a renewable material in space. Only one in five high school boys have had their first kiss, a record low in a national survey.

Tasked with the packaging design for chocolate bars from Gok3choco, 14-year-old student Vincent Zhou was inspired by Peko-chan, one of Japan ... jumpsuit and wide-brimmed hat, with cacao beans ...

Known as the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan's civilization dates as far back as 30,000 years. Today, the archipelago seamlessly blends its rich history with its ultra-modern present. And while its ...

By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo The steady course of the Japanese economy and business environment that has helped attract a torrent of investment in the past two years could be undercut ...