America used to be the archetypal “soft power” country, but sushi, anime, and a different way of life place it in the land of ...

A tsunami of fans surged into Tokyo Big Sight on a cold winter morning in late 2025, lining up before dawn for Comiket 107's 50th anniversary. Fans clutched sketchbooks, handmade costumes, and ...

The poignancy of five Japanese ballplayers returning to their home country as Major League stars resonated with the baseball ...

In the warm glow of the country’s jazz cafés, a subculture of vinyl aficionados is cultivating the kind of shared sensory ...

From throwing beans to chasing away demons, Setsubun is Japan’s unique festival of luck, renewal, and seasonal change. Here’s why it's significant and how it’s celebrated today.

Located in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Fukamachi and Haru-no-Ogawa Parks, the blue and orange toilets appear like beacons. They can be ...

Spring in Japan unveils more than just the blooming sakura, with cultural traditions and plenty of things to do that make any journey memorable.

It is still possible for a population in decline, even as severely as Japan’s, to recover, but it requires serious cultural reexamination. Japan released a report last month announcing that last year, ...

Hyderabad, inaugurated HY-SAI ’26, a Japanese Cultural Festival, on its campus on Friday. Organized by the Department of ...

The airline views AICM as the likely hub for ANA, due to its large flight network. While other Mexican airports, such as ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Japan Culture Day, also known as Bunka no Hi, is November 3 and this year, the Buffalo History Museum is hosting a celebration. The museum and Friends of the Japanese Garden are ...

This year will be the first time the UK's Japanese cultural festival will be held outside London [Hyper Japan] The UK's biggest celebration of Japanese culture will come to Manchester for the first ...