Heading to a Japanese onsen (hot spring) is one of the best trips you can do in Japan during the winter. But the exclusive onsen resorts don't come cheap and they need to keep innovating to ...

Only a few weeks into her post as US Ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy has already waded into one of the most tricky of diplomatic areas. As such rows often do these days, it erupted over a ...

Just into our online store, Takara Tomy and Sanrio have got together to give us an amazingly kawaii combo of Licca-chan and Hello Kitty. There are two versions in this "Daisuki" (Love it!) series. ...

Retro is still going strong, it seems. If you're a fan of Ultraman baddies, then head on down to Kawasaki in March to visit the Kaijyu Sakaba. Not surprisingly, it is themed around the kaiju (or ...

There may (or may not) be a storm brewing about airline ANA's latest TV ad. It shows two pilots at an airport, gazing out at the tarmac at Haneda Airport and waxing lyrical about the newly ...

Miss International, Ikumi Yoshimatsu, who famously came forward recently about the remarkable stalking she suffered at the hands of Japan's entertainment world movers and shakers, has now gone one ...

The original Oppo Dog Muzzle Quack created a HUGE stir when it was released a while back. Now our online store has got the follow-up, the Oppo Dog Muzzle Quack Closed. As the name suggests, it has ...

Movie adaptations of video games rarely work. For every Silent Hill and Resident Evil there's a Final Fantasy, Super Mario Bros. or Prince of Persia. But things go better when Hollywood isn't ...

Today Morihiro Hosokawa finally confirmed expectations that he is running in the Tokyo gubernatorial elections in February. And in an interview with TV Tokyo he has promised if he wins to hold the ...

I ❤️ cock. Not the kind of thing you would normally expect to see on the costume of a kids' TV show host, right? But this is Japan and weird stuff happens sometimes, especially on ...

With the resignation of Naoki Inose last month over a financial scandal, the position of Tokyo Governor is about to become vacant. While some pondered whether right-winger octogenarian Shintaro ...

Happy New Year, readers. 2014 is the Year of the Horse and while we are still in the grips of the cold winter, things aren't nearly as chilly as they are in parts of America right now. We ...

Another year, another packed calendar of trends. What were some of the main ones that caught our eye throughout the past twelve months? Olympics Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Olympic Games ...

Christmas is a strange time. It's all the kitsch and the shopping minus the religion (or at least, the pretense of the religious). In fact, Christmas Eve is the bigger event. It's a day when ...

Since 2009, World Vision Japan, a non-governmental organization, has been hosting Love Cake Project, a seasonal charity program to provide food aid for kids in Africa. In this project, ...