Rui Takahashi came out as gay on September 29, becoming one of the few openly gay men in Japanese professional sports. His announcement highlights the gap between growing LGBTQ+ inclusion efforts and ...

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How American designer Jakarie Whitaker built the rising avant-garde streetwear label, Hikari no Yami, from the ground up ...

Ordering at a Jiro-style ramen shop involves its own language. When the bowl is nearly ready, customers are asked whether they want garlic and regulars fire back their order in shorthand: ninniku for ...

Mount Nokogiri, 329 meters above the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, features Japan's largest stone-carved seated Buddha.

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There is an old adage that warns: "You should never meet your heroes." The fear, of course, is that the human reality will ...

GTO returns with a new 2026 live-action series, with Takashi Sorimachi reprising his titular 1998 role. How does it hold up?

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Lady Gaga stars in a new FamilyMart recruitment campaign as the Japanese convenience store chain promotes diversity, ...

In an exclusive interview, Ken Watanabe reflects on nearly quitting acting, surviving leukemia twice, Broadway and Japan's ...