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Have you been ‘Ghiblified’? Now, here’s your chance to meet two acclaimed Japanese artists who have collaborated with Studio ...
Sublime Japanese drama about four very different sisters ...
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Jujutsu Kaisen's legacy is not yet written in stone. Gege Akutami's manga debuted in 2018 on Weekly Shonen Jump, with the ...
Chiharu Shida, one of Japan’s most promising badminton talents, has built a reputation for her sharp reflexes, graceful ...
The Japanese Wife was based on Kunal Basu's book. Japanese actress Chigasu Takaku played the title role in the film, which ...
For illustrator and fiber artist Tomoko Kubo, the hiragana lettering system sparked a playful, ongoing series of embroideries ...
What the show has also done particularly well is adapting is the revision of its women characters and its diversity. The cast members of the series have attested to the power of the women in the ...
Japan has beaten newly promoted Norway 4-2 at the women's ice hockey world championship in the Czech Republic.
HOKUTO, Hokkaido--Zushihocky, this northern city's bizarre, eerie-looking official character known to induce a double take, was named Japan's most unforgettable local mascot. The ghostly white ...
The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...
A postwar low of 514,000 marriages were registered in Japan in 2021, while around 50 percent of women and 70 percent ... “Now that the idea behind the Japanese family has changed, marriage ...