Scallop fishing for the spring season has begun in Nemuro Bay in Hokkaido. Many big scallops were caught, and the port became ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Hideo Kojima explains that there's a reason behind Metal Gear protagonist Solid Snake's cool, strong, and silent personality ...

For illustrator and fiber artist Tomoko Kubo, the hiragana lettering system sparked a playful, ongoing series of embroideries ...

A statue of the dog character Gyoza-ken Jubee, dressed in a gyoza dumpling costume, was unveiled at JR Utsunomiya Station in ...