Have you ever wondered what it might look like if a festival was held in the mysterious town seen in Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away? That was the impetus for a special pattern adorning a series of ...

The Fourth Hokage’s Flying Thunder God Kunai could be yours. Though it partners with some of Japan’s most popular entertainment franchises, Nijigen no Mori is a little different from your ...

Commitment to physical media apparently stronger than concern for consent for the women shown in videos.

▼ The event is called “Seal Festival” (シールフェスティバル) in Japanese, because in Japan, a sticker is called a “seal,” and in the words of Seal, if you’re ever gonna survive as a sticker collector, you’ll ...

It’s not a total withdraw, but the chain’s downtown Tokyo footprint is going to get a lot smaller.

If you don’t pass this one simple check, you won’t even get past the starting line.

Who is King Oyama? He’s a man in a yellow sweater or sweatshirt, who’s recently been appearing on publicly posted signs in Japan’s eastern Kanto region, including in Tokyo. “Yeah, but who is he?”, you ...

Stories in Ikea Harajuku tag.

The chocolate sauce also does a great job enhancing the flavours, helping to bring the chocolate to the fore like some sort of behind-the-scenes hero. It turned out to be a fantastically delicious ...

With four doughnuts in one, this might be Japan's most decadent doughnut – but there's a hack to buying this hidden treat.

The second new product making the leap from the anime world into our homes is Kiki’s Mini Notebook (990 yen). This gorgeous piece of stationery is modelled on the red notebook used by Kiki when ...

Considered one of Japan’s three most beautiful waterfalls, Fukuroda Falls, in the town of Daigo, transforms into an icefall every December when 120-meter (394-foot) cascade freezes. The result is a ...