You’re walking down a quiet street in Japan, surrounded by glowing signs and unfamiliar symbols, when one sentence in English suddenly stops you in your tracks. It almost makes sense, yet somehow says ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...