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Fans have long bemoaned the inability to purchase digital versions of films from legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. Nearly the entire collection of Studio Ghibli movies are now av…
Japan ranked 121st among 153 countries in the gender gap rankings in 2019, down from 110th the previous year and in last place among major advanced economies, the World Economic Forum said Tuesday.…
But in some offices, those gatherings have become less frequent as concerns over power harassment grow. Essentially workplace bullying, power harassment ranges from isolating an employee to phys…
Film praised by women in Japan where talking about periods in public is considered dirty or embarrassingA manga character shaped like a pink blob with bright red lips and leggings is challenging tabo…
If you asked people to pick the most innovative Japanese company, most of the responses you’d get would probably be from the automobile and consumer electronics industries. Our vote, though, jus…
Do you have a part-time job at a cafe but are somehow also rich? The photo shows a page from a women’s interest magazine, with an illustration of a young man under a heading that proclaims …
Well...maybe not so much if you're single during Christmas in Japan. Although there are various theories as to how Christmas, or rather Christmas Eve, came to be a romantic occasion in Japa…
Understanding Japanese culture has fascinated the Western world ever since the country’s trading doors opened up in the 1800s. Another way of looking inside this enigmatic culture, from the ever…
That initiative eventually led to the creation of an annual design contest administered by the Molester Deterrence Activity Center activist organization. The Center has just announced the winner…
It has all of the information a business card needs, but with more flair than any traditional design. The Twitter user who first tweeted a picture of it, @univ00009, said that they “got this bus…
