That first year of the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on a lot of peoples' stability. It also led to an increase in video ...

Elderly people in Japan love Ohtani,” Tokyo resident Tatsuo Shinke said. “It’s my mother. And all my mother’s friends." ...

Masahiro Sakurai, the creator behind Super Smash Bros and Kirby has shared that he has invested more than $600k on his ...

Although Shohei Ohtani’s first trip to the World Series is a global sports event, it’s particularly big in Japan — and for ...

The menus within role-playing games by Atlus, including the new Metaphor: ReFantazio, unfurl in a sensory feast of color, ...

Tokini Andy is the most traditional starting point on this list, and though working your way through textbooks and kanji lessons will keep you away from games and anime, it will lay a foundation. For ...

Yorke's first solo tour since 2019 featured Radiohead, The Smile, and deep cuts from his lengthly solo career. Thom Yorke ...

He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of ...

When you want to play video games you probably head home or to a friend’s house. But in Japan video games are more social.

If you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to be Michael from Grand Theft Auto 5 or Kiryu from the Yakuza series, Japanese YouTubers ... exactly like a video game character.

Layden shared new insight, talking about not only Japan Studio, but the Japanese game industry as a whole. As he pointed out, these developers struggled in the transition to the HD era with the entry ...