What does a Japanese person recall? Doraemon, the friendly robot helper of an enormously popular eponymous anime series. So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests ...

JOMON (10,000 - 300 B.C.) Prehistoric period of tribal/clan organization. Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan. 660 B.C. Mythological Jimmu ("Divine ...

Japan’s influence on menswear over the past several decades has been profound. At this stage, in fact, it’s practically to the point of cliché. Ask a cool guy who makes his cool pants.

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

Japan, stuck in a liquidity trap, faced a particularly deep economic crisis between 1991 and 2001. The country was actually experiencing a liquidity trap: It seemed like everything Japan’s ...

Here’s how we test products and why you should trust us. Until recently, that bottle of Japanese whisky you paid a premium for might not actually contain whisky made in Japan. Producers could ...

The number of foreign residents in Japan is booming. The Internal Affairs Ministry says the figure reached 2.49 million in 2018. But a new survey finds that only one in five Japanese people have ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...

By Li Yuan A Japanese boy was stabbed on his way to school in China on Sept. 18. That’s the date when, nearly a century earlier in 1931, Japan invaded China. The child, who was 10 years old ...

The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to expand its coalition to stay in power. By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and ...

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