During a recent livestream by Adin Ross, featuring N3on, Logan Paul and Jake Paul, Logan stormed off when his brother and ...

For a long while, there was an industry in Japan called Nihonjin-ron: a multimillion-dollar traffic in theories of the Japanese national character. The Japanese of the 1960's and 70's discovered to ...

Nara’s Toshodaiji is an eighth-century temple founded by the Chinese monk Ganjin, one of the greatest influences on Buddhism in Japan. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Toshodaiji is an iconic and ...

A traveler at heart, Brianna is a risk-taker and goal chaser. Ever since she saw her brother playing Ocarina of Time on their N64, her path was set. In 2021, she graduated from California State ...

I can't emphasize how much significance below-the-belt jokes play in Japanese humor. In America, they are often perceived as unnecessarily vulgar, or as a cheap way to spice up an otherwise stale joke ...

Furloughed ninjas from a museum in central Japan also got creative last week, delivering supportive messages to local children in the form of “ancient” scrolls. The scrolls tell the children they can ...

Thick black lines mark the contours of an elephant depicted head-on, its legs merging into a single, columnar mass fringed with a curlicue of toes, its body so large only a sliver fits inside the ...

Yaso, a mysterious figure in a demonic red and blue mask, has transported Takahiro Ogata to a realm of pain. “You gamble with your life here!” Yaso shouts. Ogata, a young Japanese actor with a mop of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Aflac considers Gilbert Gottfried, for years the voice of its trademark ...

Ken Block might have shown you the coolness of Gymkhana, with lots of smoke, tire shredding and going sideways as much as possible. But the original Gymkhana is not like that. In fact, seeing such an ...

Japan soldiers on in efforts to deal with the physical and emotional toll of the massive earthquake and tsunami. Much attention has been diverted from the tough situation of the hundreds of thousands ...