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News outlet Japan Today just released a video with news caster Jeff Richards titled “Why Japan’s J-pop idol industry bans sex, dating and romance.” The video, which is about 10 minutes long, starts out with talk on the Japanese movie Love on Trial, which is …Read more »
The American Music Awards has been around for 50 years and is celebrating more cross-cultural collaborations and international artists, but did you know Japan just had its very own music awards show? The inaugural Music Awards Japan (MAJ) 2025, held on May 21–22 at Kyoto’s ROHM …Read more »
In Oshi no Ko, Ai Hoshino gives her kids “kirakira” names — Aquamarine and Ruby. Kirakira can be translated as sparkly, shiny, or glittery, and these are unusual names that employ kanji in an irregular way. Kirakira names have been a thing since the 90s, …Read more »
Last year, there were approximately 1,100 host clubs in Japan, with about a third of them in Tokyo. These are supposed to be fun, entertaining excursions, like we see in Ouran High School Host Club (and check out Otaku USA’s interview with Kyoya’s voice actor …Read more »
Japan’s economy has shrunk 0.2% in January through March, which was more than experts were anticipating. With the trade war continuing and Japan still not happy with President Trump’s tariffs, more concerns grow that, unless something changes, a recession is around the corner for the …Read more »
Thanks to everything from anime to its ancient culture, Japan is a country that attracts a lot of tourism. The Japan Tourism Agency likes this and wants to keep up the tourists coming, so it decided to survey foreign tourists as they were about to …Read more »
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (a.k.a. METI) is a section of the Japanese government, and it recently said that using generative AI in the wrong ways could run afoul of the country’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act. Namely, METI pointed out how using generative …Read more »
This year marks 37 years since the original Japanese broadcast of Yoroiden Samurai Trooper, known simply as Samurai Troopers in English and previously localized for television as Ronin Warriors. Now, to mark the latest anniversary for the original 1988-1989 series, Sunrise has a special screening …Read more »
There are many Japanophiles out there, and that includes students from other countries who choose to go to the island nation for school. The Japan Student Services Organization disclosed its numbers for the Study on the Enrollment Status of Foreign Students, and it made some …Read more »
Popular manga titles often bring tourism to Japan, but one controversial manga is reducing tourism. Watashi ga Mita Mirai (translated as The Future I Saw) by Ryo Tatsuki was originally published in 1999, and it’s about Tatsuki’s dreams. She alleges that sometimes her dreams come …Read more »
Japan has its own distinct culture with rules and manners that might not always be familiar for traveling tourists. As a creative solution, right now the Shinkansen sections of Tokyo, Shinagawa, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Shin Osaka Stations are using “Manga Manners” to help people know …Read more »
Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, the 28th film in the long-running franchise, has earned 6.34 billion yen after two weeks in theaters, making it Japan’s highest grosser of 2025 so far. The film, which centers on a mystery in Nagano Prefecture, earned 3.43 billion yen in its …Read more »
On April 21 in Saitama Prefecture, police arrested 48-year-old Daisuke Nishimura while he was naked at a junior high cram school. After breaking into the school, he allegedly physically attacked the teacher with a mug, causing a need for stitches, and grabbed a girl by …Read more »
Anime and manga tourism are big businesses in Japan. But according to a new report, sex tourism is also seeing an increased presence in the country. According to the French news organization Agence France-Presse (AFP), there is no official data on these numbers, though their …Read more »
The recent OpenAI craze of making Studio Ghibli style art has gotten a lot of people talking about copyright laws. Studio Ghibli itself still has not made a statement on it (though Hayao Miyazaki famously came out as anti-AI a few years ago), but the …Read more »
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