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The Association of Japanese Animators conducts a yearly study of industry earnings, calculating data from roughly 150 significant anime-related companies. It’s just released its 2019 report…
Our “Japan English” starts to infiltrate our lives to the point where we have to train our brains to switch gears. But out of the more than 70 countries that are considered English-speaking…
Hokkaido Dairy and RamenThe monopoly on cows in Japan has created a heavenly aura around Hokkaido’s dairy industry. One of the more exciting uses of Hokkaido’s dairy is the signature ramen dish,…
Comme des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo has created the costumes for a Vienna State Opera production of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. The costumes for the production, which premiered on 8 Decem…
Japanese research organization Disco, which conducts surveys on job-hunting foreign students in Japan every year, recently polled them on what the biggest oddity of the Japanese job-hunting…
Honda will reboot the S2000 in 2020, but not in the way everyone wants. Instead of building a new generation of its rev-happy sports car, Honda has come up with what the S2000 could look li…
How does the boss of the beef bowl king eat his gyudon? In comparison to the topping and sauce-laden “teriyaki bowls” served at pseudo-Japanese restaurants overseas, authentic gyudon (…
Nothing like a good pair of socks to remind us that some people are blessed with artistic talent and others, well, aren’t. There’s only one Muji (short for Mujirushi Ryohin) store location in al…
That’s why today we’re counting down the top five indecipherable Japanese Internet slang words. It’s dangerous to go into the Japanese Internet alone; take this! 5. orzThe first offici…
So if you want to give Netflix’s anime series a shot but were confused by seeing wildly different shows like Devilman Crybaby and Pokémon sitting next to each other, this list is for you. No oth…
