Some University of Minnesota students have come up with a creative solution for a pesky problem. "Every year, these Japanese beetles would come and completely eat away at our plum trees," said Aditya ...

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 ...

In “Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers,” Paul Morland, an eminent British authority on demography, said of Japan’s continuing population decline that the country is “caught in a ...

Currently, anyone in Japan is free to dress as their favorite characters. But it might not stay free for them to do so. The Japanese government is proposing big copyright law changes for those who ...

Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, Japan’s chief naval strategist during World War II, was a gambler who “won large sums on poker, bridge, shogi—Japanese chess—and the Japanese game of stones known as ‘go.’” He ...

On the first day of operation of Jikei Hospital’s “stork cradle,” earlier this month, an unexpectedly large package arrived. The new service consists of a small hatch facing the outside of the ...

Japan's 10-year government bond yield is hovering around 0.5%, an all-time low. Clearly, this is the result of the Bank of Japan's unprecedented securities purchases via the ongoing quantitative ...

Living near Paris, Iyane (He/Him) is mainly covering Japanese media on DualShockers. He started his writing career in 2018 after being scouted for his blogging and talent for live-translating Japanese ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks like he's trying to get serious about deficit reduction. This is a good thing. The economy has mostly normalized -- a highly relative term in an economy whose ...

A Japanese politician's attempt to engage voters using the Gundamfranchise has backfired spectacularly, drawing criticism from both fans and even rightsholder Bandai Namco. Taro Yamamoto, Japanese ...

World Cosplay Summit WCS is the annual international cosplay event held in Japan, considered as the most vibrant and popular part of Tokyo’s pop culture and it promotes global interaction through ...