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The “virgin woman in her thirties” has become a common trope in Japanese manga and anime in recent years. ▼ It started with a kabe-don…“Mid-thirties virginity complex”, it seems, affec…
KYODO NEWS - 2 hours ago - 10:41 | All, JapanJapan's space agency said Wednesday its Hayabusa2 space probe has departed from an asteroid which it landed on to collect samples and will …
People in America have fond memories of the Prelude, which is why finding out that it was a flop in Japan is so hard to imagine. What’s even harder to wrap your head around is part of why: it ha…
Weekly Shonen Jump’s name might not be entirely accurate, so our in-house fan offers an alternative. Japan’s best-selling manga anthology is, and for many years has been, Weekly Shonen…
Japan’s love hotels, as the name implies, are all about the loving. But while most visitors to a love hotel aim to spend as little time as possible with their clothes on, one group has found a w…
Buddhist monks and other religious pilgrims have walked the roads of the Kumano Kodo for over 1,000 years to reach some of Japan’s most sacred shrines and temples. Also known as the Kumano Old R…
Specialist shops like R Best in the outskirts of Tokyo want to keep GT-Rs in Japan. The way GT-Rs are being (or will soon be) exported is causing scarcity in Japan, pushing prices up t…
A gaijin speaking to a local audience today has absolutely nailed his jikoshoukai. “That was my best jikoshoukai yet,” says 3-years-a-gaijin Kevin Robertson. “I even included…
As the official first year of Reiwa, 2019 was hot with discussion as soon as the era was christened. Keigen Zeiritsu (Reduced Tax Rate)October 1, 2019 signaled an increase in consumption tax fro…
The 61-year-old heads Bio Hotels Japan, which he established in 2013 to advocate for slow living in a country where convenience -- exemplified by its 24-hour convenience stor…
