The tokusatsu franchise continues to find itself on the wrong side of the law with second arrest in as many months.
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A celebration where it isn’t really clear if the guests love or hate the couple getting married.
Japan has a reputation for cool gadgets and efficient interiors, but this is on a whole new level!
Perplexing perspectives: when left is right, and right is right, our brains melt but we’re impressed nonetheless.
Video shows a man out for a very atypical afternoon walk.
Passersby were shocked to see the man surrounded by women with cameras at the side of the street.
Drunken attempt at assistance is a prime example of the solution being far worse than the problem.
Anime becomes reality with help from the creator of the original Gundam, and it even has a strange, hard-to-pronounce anime mecha-style name!
In our latest attempt to get rich and eat fast food, we test the limits of the Uniqlo/McDonald’s discount campaign.
A trick of the light has Japanese social media checking every crane game for evil apparitions.
Fishing enthusiasts–do you think you have what it takes to beat this extreme “God-level fishing game”?
Savile Row suit maker recreates anime villain Char’s military uniform, and it costs far more than three times what a normal cosplay costume does.
Tells police odd mix of courtesy and violence was “the only way” to settle their differences.
Months-long investigation ends with police officers taking Shogun Kigawa into custody after he fails to resist his fetish for peeing women.
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