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Famitsu, one of Japan’s top gaming magazines, has compiled a big survey of Japan’s gamer population in 2024 and compared it to the same numbers from a decade ago (2015 was seriously 10 years ago?). The top-line number shows an increase in the number of …Read more »
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has been keeping tabs on demographics since 1968, and this year’s survey shows that Japan’s population is decreasing while its foreign population is increasing. On January 1, 2025, there were 120,653,227 Japanese people living in Japan. Last year, …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 »
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 »
A Publishers Weekly article by Shaenon K. Garrity brings attention to how manga’s large segment of female readers is changing the publishing landscape in America. Many girls who grew up reading manga are now women reading manga, and this is leading to more titles being …Read more »
The Naruto Shippuden x Maeda Coffee collaboration café, which starts tomorrow and lasts through April 13, affects five different Maeda cafés in Kyoto, sometimes with different offerings on their menu. All of the cafés will offer Naruto Shippuden Pound Cake, Naruto’s Swirl Ham Pocket Sandwich, …Read more »
One of the results of anime’s popularity is the whole anime tourism industry, most of which takes place in Japan itself. Each year the Anime Tourism Association puts out a list of “Anime Pilgrimage Sites People Should Visit,” and 2025’s list was recently revealed. Let’s …Read more »
Dark Horse Manga is getting ready to release more of Gou Tanabe’s Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated H.P. Lovecraft manga adaptations. Next up is H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space, which once again has Zack Davisson handling English translation and is set to join the …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 »
Crunchyroll is a major anime streaming platform, but according to a report by Bloomberg, things aren’t all rosy in the company. The report bases this opinion after interviewing 18 former and current employees (none of whom wanted to publicly share their names) and looking at …Read more »
The restaurant supply company Hachimenroppi and marketing firm Nexer decided to do a survey about food. But not just any food — it’s specifically about food in Studio Ghibli movies. 500 people shared which Ghibli movie had the tastiest-looking food. In fifth place is Howl’s …Read more »
Risk Monster, a credit management company located in Tokyo, does a yearly survey titled Organizations Where I Want my Children/Grandchildren to Work. A total of 800 people were surveyed, evenly split with 200 having a daughter, 200 having a son, 200 having a granddaughter, and …Read more »
Anime fans around the World voted on their favorite anime songs and the results are in! Japanese media, Asahi TV surveyed 1,740 people residing outside of Japan to rank their top anisongs. The top 20 were presented by Asahi TV’s General Election team on X. …Read more »
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (a.k.a. BAFTA) decided to do something special in honor of the anniversary for their BAFTA Games Awards, which debuted 20 years ago. So in addition to listing this year’s BAFTA Games Award winners (like Technical Achievement going …Read more »
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