Publisher nixes two of the most common storytelling tricks in the anime playbook in attempt to create something adults can enjoy.
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Love of anime, light novels, and/or costuming essential, desire to actually sleep optional.
Drawing inspiration from an internationally beloved children’s book, chef creates a hybrid pancake/cookie.
This brand new space has 5,000 books for guests to read, a special bar stocked with local beers, and bunks inside the shelves to sleep in.
The status of women in Japan is changing and the Japanese language is being modified along with it. Let’s see how women are viewed these days by surveying some of the modern Japanese words used to describe them.
In what’s become an annual event, bookseller Junkudo is letting lucky lovers of literature spend one night slumbering among its shelves.
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A new 63-page encyclopedic picture book provides a great reference to the whimsical rides of Studio Ghibli films.
Kuraberu Tōzai presents an easy-to-understand compilation of regional differences between Tokyo and Osaka in terms of cuisines, art, and cultural traditions.
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Ever wondered what Munch’s The Scream or Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring might look like if done in modern day Japan? If so, then this book is for you!
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