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 ...

We are not born to die. We are born to live." The cultural attaché at the embassy explains: "Japanese anime is very popular in Ukraine and has inspired many people to start studying the Japanese ...

There are currently an estimated 800mn fans of Japanese animation — known as anime — around the world, and key figures in the industry see those numbers rising towards a billion fairly soon.

SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...

A joint anime production with Saudi Arabia now showing in Japan depicts an ancient war described in the Koran, Islam's most holy text, as an entertaining action adventure drama. The story of ...

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

Niconico, a prominent content distribution service in Japan owned by parent company Kadokawa, recently unveiled its top 10 ...

Established in 1982, Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) stands as the largest and oldest foreign university in Japan. As a full-service branch campus of the renowned Temple University ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

With anime’s popularity continuing to expand abroad and Japan’s contracting population, this trend is likely to continue, the AJA projects. A breakdown of revenues by category showed overseas ...

Western and Japanese audiences alike look back fondly on the '90s era of anime, which saw the premiere of numerous franchises ...

Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Following some interesting comments made by Jamie Anderson last Summer about the anime origins of Terrahawks, I decided to follow up ...