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Japanese etiquette has different styles of bowing for different scenarios, including the dogeza, where a person gets on their hands and knees and rests their head on the floor. It’s a way to show that you’re really, really sorry. But there’s a difference in someone …Read more »
Many anime and manga characters are students in Japanese schools, but how accurate is their portrayal to real school life? And what are some things real students might not like about their schools? A new survey asked Japanese kids in elementary school and junior high …Read more »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
How would you like to take a course on anime in a college or vocational school? That’s one of the many ideas being pushed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, a section of the Japanese government. Right now Japanese content (which includes anime, manga, movies, …Read more »
On April 2 President Trump imposed tariffs on goods coming into America, including a 24% tariff on Japanese goods. Things coming in from other countries will have a baseline of 10%, but countries President Trump called the “worst offenders” — including Japan — have much …Read more »
Just because we’re coming out of the darker part of the year doesn’t mean we’ve left behind our love of thrills and chills. And fortunately, three new manga and comic releases coming in March and April will keep us well-stocked with unusual stories all the …Read more »
It’s not really even a movie, but Gundam GQuuuuuuX Beginning won at the Japanese box office this weekend. Beginning, which is essentially the first few episodes of the upcoming series Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX cut into one 81-minute feature for theaters, took 599 million yen …Read more »
It seems that Western credit card companies are again affecting Japanese businesses. This time around it’s about Niconico, which also has a “mature illustration service” called Niconico Shunga. (The title references shunga, a traditional type of Japanese erotica that usually would take the form of …Read more »
What’s it like for young adults dating in Japan? Japanese matchmaking service O-net has been running an annual survey since 2016 to find out. The survey is specifically for people who are 20, because in Japan this age is customarily viewed as the beginning of …Read more »
Does anime make you hungry? The Japan Food Product Overseas Promotion Center (a.k.a. JFOODO) decided to do a survey asking anime fans if watching anime got them interested in eating Japanese food. Just over half, at 51%, said that after seeing certain foods portrayed in …Read more »
There’s been a controversy brewing over some Western credit card companies and their agencies when it comes to manga retailers that sell adult titles. Some of these credit cards will not purchase from the retailers, and Visa has publicly admitted that they’re one of them. …Read more »
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