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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Sponsors make television possible. And in Japan, those sponsors dominate the commercial breaks. During each show, they even get one shout out right ...

In the last of the season's auditions, the judges also saw a guy who puts on underwear quickly, which was...something. Anticipation for the Olympics was strong on Tuesday night's episode of America's ...

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 ...

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 ...