Kids, adults, and even students who don’t live in the city are told to limit their use of smartphones and other devices.

DHS doesn’t seem to know what the Pokémon series, or its English theme song, are about.

With a Pokéfuta in every municipality, Tottori lets you explore the entire prefecture on your quest to catch 'em all.

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Ashita no Curry promises to give you the flavor of tomorrow’s curry, today. Priced at 398 yen (US$2.70), the instant curry pouch can be prepared either by heating it in a pot of boiling water for five ...

Bare-minimum otaku knowledge could have scored contestants US$2,000.

As much as we love all the glitzy, brand new stores that keep popping up around Tokyo, our heart always skips a beat when we come across a retro store that remains steadfast in the face of ...

New menu items and more make for the perfect place to grab a kawaii bite after shopping in a major Tokyo department store.

You’ll find many brands in Japan, ranging from obscure to eminently recognisable. At the very top of the chain are brands that are so well known they’ve become household names, and two of those are ...

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Designed to let foreign goods in while keeping foreign ideas out, this Nagasaki neighborhood is one of the most historically significant places in Japan.

Although the latest Demon Slayer film has been dominating the box office in Japan for the past nine weeks in a row, one movie that came very close to dethroning it several times was the live-action ...