In a world filled with Japanese mythological oddball gods and monsters, one of the creatures' free-spirited daughters, Onari, is determined to follow in the footsteps of the mighty heroes of lore, but ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...

Japanese people have taken to wearing face masks during the pandemic, but the main reason for doing so has more to do with going along with others than preventing the coronavirus from spreading ...

A Japanese police chief has apologised in person to a man who spent 58 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Iwao Hakamada, 88, was kept on death row for more than 50 of those years before ...

ONSHINDO OSAKA, the first Japanese cosmetics line to be sold in pharmacies, presents its innovative double-use face mask, ...

Ask a cool guy who makes his cool pants. There’s a good chance they’re made by a Japanese brand you’ve never heard of. Even the phrase “Japanese brand” has become synonymous with ...

A dataset of 1,000 facial photos of Japanese wearing masks is suddenly in high demand amid a growing need for massive amounts of images to train facial recognition programs. Operators of stock ...

Finally, the classical Japanese theater, Noh, performed since the 14th century, is getting an update. The skill of carving ...

By David Waldstein Masa Kawai wore his faded Yankees cap on Wednesday as he served customers at the Japanese doughnut shop he owns in Edgewater, N.J. It was two days before Game 1 of a World ...

"The Mask" is one of Jim Carrey's zaniest comedy vehicles, but a Japanese promotional poster for the film made it look like a ...

Simply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A UK-based activist fund has taken a stake in one of Japan’s biggest property groups and is ...

The Minnesota Vikings lost their comeback chance against the Los Angeles Rams on “Thursday Night Football” after officials missed a face-mask infraction by Rams linebacker Byron Young late in ...