Inbound tourism boom and Japanese New Year’s traditions are too much for the world’s most famous sushi town to handle simultaneously, request says.

Ueno Zoo is doing what it can to keep the line moving as fans come to say goodbye to Japan’s last pandas.

Yamagata is one of the more affected parts of Japan when it comes to bears, and sightings are still reported daily, though as this case and one of the comments pointed out, mistakes do happen.

Grabbing attention right off the bat are the Hadouken Churros, served in a wrapper showing Street Fighter protagonist Ryu in his classic fireball-launching pose, with a coating of blue chocolate at ...

As an added bonus, after listening to the drama you’ll receive a confirmation screen, which you can show at anime specialty shop Animate’s Animate Nagoya branch to receive one of three acrylic ...

Are these two new varieties good enough to take on the fast food game?

The deadline for Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei to be transferred to China is coming up on February 20, and rather than leave everything to the very last minute, Ueno Zoo says that the pair will leave Japan in ...

When Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei leave Tokyo, it’ll bring an end to more than 50 years of pandas in Japan.

When Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei leave Tokyo, it’ll bring an end to more than 50 years of pandas in Japan.

More foreign tourists leading to fewer Japanese tourists could be leading to more foreign tourists which could lead to fewer Japanese tourists which ...

Japan’s rules of imperial succession are pretty strict: the emperor has to be male, and he has to be connected through his father’s lineage to the emperor. Naruhito has no son, and with him being 65 ...

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