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Amazing, brutal, and all too true, this two-page spread by publisher Takarajimasha-sha in today’s Asahi reads: “No vaccine. No medicine. Do you expect us to fight with bamboo spears? Our

Is QAnon really “sophisticated and active” in Japan? No. I don’t think so. But this is more than just opinion, and given that I’m actually quoted here, I feel the

Happy 32nd to Game Boy, which arrived on Japanese shelves April 21, 1989. (It would hit North America two months later in July, and Europe a year after that.) It

Things I learned today: the flag displayed aboard the USS Missouri during the surrender of Japan on Sept 2, 1945, was the very same flown by Commodore Perry over his

This dress really gets me thinking about the unsung hero who kicked off the fad for strawberry fashions and so much else, the Japanese fashion designer Runé Naito. Tweetstorm ahoy!

Very interesting thread, but perhaps too simplistic? Pre-Miyazaki, there was a failed strike at Toei that fed many defections to Tezuka's Mushi Pro (which made Astro Boy, Japan's first TV

Now that the #FinalFantasy VII remake #FF7R is here, it makes me think about what a literal game-changer the 1997 original was. Not just in terms of sales, but

Today, April 7, marks an epoch-making moment in pop cultural history: the debut of Mobile Suit Gundam. It wasn’t the first anime to find an older audience, but it was