Latest volume in Hayao Miyazaki Image Board Series traces the pre-history of Nausicaa, with over 50 never-before-seen Hayao Miyazaki illustrations.

They are not for the faint of heart or wallet. In my previous reviews of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai World Expo, I came to the basic conclusion that it’s a pretty good time as long as you don’t focus on ...

Legends say Sai no Kawara exists on the border between the realms of the living and the dead, but the map says it’s in Tottori.. Our Japanese-language reporter Ikuna Kamezawa was born and grew up in ...

The sugoroku trip around Ghibli Park is also an Easter egg hunt.. Ghibli Park does things a little differently than other theme parks. It focuses more on art and atmosphere than parades and rides, and ...

Obviously, there was a spike in izakaya bankruptcies during the pandemic, with 189 in 2020. But while bankruptcies dipped in the latter half of the health crisis, a massive jump occurred in 2023 with ...

All in all, you’ll definitely want to gauge your student’s energy levels throughout their stay, especially if they’ve just arrived from Japan and may have jet lag. As anyone who’s spent significant ...

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Anno has been a busy guy since putting a presumably permanent period on the Evangelion franchise with 2021’s Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, making Shin Ultraman in 2022 and Shin Kamen Rider ...

Preorders are currently open for the 2025 edition of the Nyantama Calendar.As always, I feel it’s my duty to explain the unusual linguistics involved. In Japanese, nyan is an onomatopoeia for a cat ...

Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto gives video tour of brand-new expansion to USJ’s Super Nintendo World.. No one could blame Nintendo/theme park fans for getting a little antsy about the promised ...

As luck would have it, an opportunity came when I covered Japanese candy maker Glico’s exhibits and announcements there recently and I also had some time to go around and really take in what the Expo ...

Aoshima’s resident “Cat Mama” is one of the residents who provides a lot of the care for the animals, and even clears their poop from roads all over the 0.49-square-kilometre (0.19 -square-mile) ...