Booze fans pass the time in a quintessentially Japanese way, while their younger counterparts opt for a more athletic method.
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Recreation of magical pendant from Hayao Miyazaki classic couples with elegantly detailed music box.
Six patterns skirt Tokyo Disneyland’s no-cosplay rule, feature characters as famous as Mickey and as forgotten as Clarice.
If you dare to litter in Tokyo, you’d better watch out, because there’s a team of fearsome samurai warriors ready to admonish you.
With mosquito season here, Japanese Twitter learns a quick and easy way to deal with the pests.
Take a trip back in time and into feline cuteness with this new cat cafe in one of Tokyo’s most history-rich neighborhoods.
Who’s going to win? Bowser-bashing plumber with super powers or the best tennis player in the world?
White rice goes head to head with jelly in the sharpest blade stakes, but only one can win.
Newest offerings from hyper-popular brand Mocolle are a convenient, cozy way to cosplay at home.
Monkeys with typewriters can write Shakespeare but can machines create anime as well as humans?
It’s so massive that from certain angles it looks like Japan is under attack by a giant alien life-form.
Citizens filled with pride in their country, anger at Mercator projection as distance from Hokkaido to Okinawa is shown to equal Denmark to Spain.
A tiny cyborg model at the moment, this contraption marks the beginning of robots taking over humanity.
On-camera reactions range from “yabai” to “seriously yabai.”
Gran Toda’s “Fat Purchasing Campaign” is certainly one of the best incentives to finally get into shape.
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