For the creators of the new Image Comics series Wayward, the Land of the Rising Sun seemed as good a place as any to set a story about mythology and the modern generational divide. Plus, Tokyo is just ...

2024 marked the 90th anniversary of Japan’s national parks—first established to satisfy a growing domestic interest, and stimulate the curiosity of foreign travelers. The events of the century that ...

In an April 2012 article in Forbes titled “If Japan Is Broke, How Is It Bailing Out Europe?”, Eamonn Fingleton pointed out the Japanese government was by far the largest single non-eurozone ...

Japan is dealing with what economists call a "demographic time bomb." Through a vicious cycle of low fertility and low consumer spending, the country's economy has gradually shrunk over the last 20 ...

The chart above shows annual real GDP per capita for Japan and the U.S. (data here) from 1980 to 2010, where each series has been converted to an index, with a value of 100 for the year 1980. Compared ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. One well-received and much commented-on blog post I wrote many years ago covered the "stages of living in Japan". These are the 5 stages I have ...

Since Black Myth: Wukong became a mega-hit, people have been taking China's video game industry more seriously, including developers in Japan who have been sharing their praise. In a series of tweets ...