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East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. If you are in the market for Monster Hunter sculpture and have lots of m…
You may not know her name, but if you’ve played the recent Metal Gear Solid games, you know her voice. If you’ve ridden the bullet train, you know it too. In Japan, her versatile voice is h…
Five men accused of gang raping a 14-year-old girl have been acquitted of sexual assault because the victim was in an “unconscious state”. Sexual assault under Spanish law is the equiv…
Oki Sato explains how Nendo's chair for Fritz Hansen follows circular design principles, in this exclusive video filmed by Dezeen at the Japanese design studio's office in Milan. The r…
With the Rugby World Cup taking place in Japan, players have been asked to wear long sleeve tops when they use public gyms or swimming pools as tattoos can be associated with organized crime in Japan…
In Japan today, only a handful of artists still practice "ukiyo-e," the printing method used to produce Hokusai's famous "The Great Wave off Kanagawa." Source: CNN
Marathon runners will swap sweltering Tokyo for the cooler climes of northern Japan in the 2020 Olympics, and the capital city’s governor isn’t happy about it. The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo …
For far, far too long people have been willfully blind to the moral costs of doing business in China. Instead, globalization and economic integration have become tools of Chinese soft power…
Regardless of unfortunate historic events and circumstances, the East and West have always had a big crush on each other. Japan loves rock ’n’ roll and hamburgers, and, in return, the West crave…
KYODO NEWS - 27 minutes ago - 01:20 | All, JapanPolice believe a fire that destroyed Shuri Castle, a symbol of Okinawa located at a World Heritage site, was not likely to have been caused b…
