Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...

Some genres of music are broad, like pop or country. Others are a bit more narrow, like kawaii metal. Created in Japan when Babymetal was formed, kawaii metal (also known as J-pop metal or kawaiicore) ...

Singapore is now the first country to have an art installation 7,000 metres beneath the ocean ... these artworks were installed near the Mariana Trench off the coast of Japan by NuStar Technologies in ...

Each player is rendered in Demon Slayer’s flashy art style made most famous by its Japanese cartoon adaptation more commonly known as anime. At the end of the two-minute film, Ohtani takes over ...

The digital art show, “Naked Sakura Aquarium,” is offering visitors ... Add TheJapanNews to your Google News feed. Japan Oct.-Dec. GDP Revised Down to 2.2 Pct Annual Rise Japan Sells 141,796 Tons of ...

The Shikoku port city of Takamatsu is often the jumping-off point for the smaller art-laden islands of Naoshima, Teshima and others. Yet Kagawa’s prefectural capital and the rustic castle town ...

This series showcases what we are calling “kawaii” (cute) items made locally in the iconic Japanese city. Yamada-Matsu Co. is a long-established specialty shop for incense woods founded as a ...

These aren’t plastic trinkets, either. The mugs are designed by Japanese ceramics company Noritake, which was founded over a century ago, and their bone china is prized for its translucent shine. A ...

TOKYO -- Li Yalin, a 28-year-old second-year master's student at the private Kyoto University of the Arts, moved to Japan in 2019 after earning a degree from a university in China. She was ...

While the shonen franchise has yet to confirm what the future holds for its anime adaptation or its manga, the new cover art is going viral thanks to bringing together the absolute strongest ...

We don't even know if she is a cat," art historian Joyce S ... Part of the confusion stems from a misunderstanding of “kawaii,” which is Japanese for “cute” but also connotes a lovable ...