Takehiro Masutomo explores how Japan’s “Run Ri” migrants—affluent Chinese professionals reshaping cities, schools, and markets—are fueling real estate spikes, cultural shifts, integration challenges, ...

TOKYO -- Shigeo Nagashima, one of the most famous baseball players in Japanese history who was known as “Mr. Pro Baseball,” has died. He was 89. Nagashima died Tuesday in a hospital due to ...

(UPDATE) FOLK singer and Original Pilipino Music (OPM) icon Freddie Aguilar died Tuesday. He was 72. Reports said Aguilar ...

(UPDATE) FOLK singer and Original Pilipino Music (OPM) icon Freddie Aguilar died Tuesday ... charts in 1979 but also reached No. 1 in Japan and gained popularity in countries such as Angola ...

A Japanese railway company has launched an etiquette campaign aimed at foreign tourists that taps into one of the nation’s most globally recognisable cultural icons – manga characters – in ...

Including one very famous monster. The five covers of T’s annual Culture issue — which this year is devoted entirely to Japan and its outsize cultural influence on the world — feature six of ...

Just as bitcoin (BTC) and traditional risk assets stabilize after last week's Trump tariff-led panic, unsettling movements in Japanese bonds emerge, throwing a spanner into the mix. The yield on ...

Its “Cool Japan” initiative leveraged popular culture—including anime, fashion, and kawaii icons like Hello Kitty—to “strengthen the ties between Japan and other countries.” ...

As tempura gained popularity in Japan, it took on a life of its own, influencing Japanese cuisine in ways that still endure today. Initially a street food in the bustling port city of Nagasaki, it ...

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