Anyone who has seen Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation must wonder for at least a second if there is truth in Bill Murray’s character of a famous American actor in Japan to film a commercial. Well, ...

The Straw Hats Pirates from One Piece are gracing television screens in Japan once again, and they have never looked better than they do in this screen-grab from a series of commercials from Indeed ...

As mentioned previously, these commercials border on the side of absurdist comedy. The first commercial features Honda walking into a classroom packed with students wielding a longsword. She then ...

Living near Paris, Iyane (He/Him) is mainly covering Japanese media on DualShockers. He started his writing career in 2018 after being scouted for his blogging and talent for live-translating Japanese ...

FEW things in the history of modern Japan are better worth noting just now than the curious revulsion of feeling against its people which has prevailed since its recent war, during which the praises ...

Japan has resumed commercial whaling in the country for the first time in more than three decades — despite outrage from activists over the practice. On Monday, the country officially left the ...

Japan resumed commercial whaling this week after a hiatus of more than thirty years. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with historian Kurkpatrick Dorsey about the diplomacy and economics of whaling in Japan.

Japanese whalers brought ashore their first catches this week as the country lifted a ban on commercial whaling that has been in place since 1986. In defiance of international condemnation, Japan has ...