The mysterious god even has a moving mouth, to eat the tasty anime meals on the note pads.

Here is essential advice for surviving sudden disaster in Japan.

Japan’s reigning monarch and his sweetheart get into the spirit of Ghibli Park.

As in many corners of the globe, Japan has been putting up with an increasing number of previously rare weather-related natural disasters. One of the more surprising was the widespread flooding around ...

Riding the waves and eating the sweets in Asagaya.

When you spot a restaurant on a train platform in Japan, the odds are extremely high that it’s going to be a noodle joint, and specifically a soba/udon one. Since they both use the same sort of broth, ...

This year, Ghibli specialty shop chain Donguri Kyowakoku is giving fans a giant hug in the form of two new sock ranges, with the first being a collection of embroidered socks, honouring four of the ...

The town of Yugawara, in Kanagawa Prefecture, seems like it should be a very tranquil place. A seaside hot spring town, with baths and inns dotting the cityscape as it stretches up into the mountains ...

Foxes rarely venture this close to the Tokyo city center…unless kitsune spirits are here all the time.

Tokyo-based creative collective Naked, Inc., known for combining cinematic storytelling with cutting-edge technology, embraces this dichotomy wholeheartedly, having run several digital art exhibitions ...

While the cake can be eaten as is, because the flavour is simple, you can customise it to your liking. Natsuki chopped up the other half and added chocolate sauce, nuts and mint to make a decadent ...

Opening on the same day, and right next door to the Gundam Base Minneapolis, will be a new Bandai Namco Cross Store, carrying a wide variety of otaku-oriented items from the many, many franchises the ...