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The life of a manga artist is one of nonstop work, painful failures, and cutthroat competition. However, looking at a comic that Japanese manga artist and Twitter user @kohara_motoshi recently p…
Generations ago, Japan decided to flip the script on Valentine’s Day and it became a custom for girls to give gifts, usually chocolate, to guys in the country. Making chocolate yourself takes mo…
Valentine’s Day in Japan is as much about the chocolate as it is about romance. But just as there are all sorts of romantic feelings, from a simple crush to a love that you feel from the bottom …
"Ill-mannered Chinese tourists have caused trouble in my store," the man, who was not identified, was quoted as saying by the Asahi Shimbun news site. I don't want Chinese to…
West Japan Railway Co. is developing an AI system to gauge the amounts of snow attached to Hokuriku Shinkansen trains that cut through Niigata, Toyama and Ishikawa prefectures along the coast of the …
We are coming to Japan from Australia specifically to attend Comic Con Tokyo in 2020. I am wanting to book flights (there are some great flight deals available at the moment) but I can’t find a …
Kao-moji look like little faces, typically made with parentheses, and they express a huge variety of emotions. And one such international app, Simeji with over 10 million installs, recently…
Earlier this year in January, Japan saw heavy snowfall that caused the nose of a local Tengu to break off. Located outside Kurama Station in Kyoto, and part of the local Kurama-dera temple,…
Yesterday, Tokyo woke up to their first November snow in over 50 years. The last time the first snowfall, called hatsuyuki (初雪) occurred in November was in 1962. So if you go back to the fi…
Bear in mind that these are the types of emoji often used in Japanese texting which usually depict a face between two parenthesis making up the head, such as: ( •_•). So without further ado, her…
