For a long while, there was an industry in Japan called Nihonjin-ron: a multimillion-dollar traffic in theories of the Japanese national character. The Japanese of the 1960's and 70's discovered to ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Sponsors make television possible. And in Japan, those sponsors dominate the commercial breaks. During each show, they even get one shout out right ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the last of the season's auditions, the judges also saw a guy who puts on underwear quickly, which was...something.

Thick black lines mark the contours of an elephant depicted head-on, its legs merging into a single, columnar mass fringed with a curlicue of toes, its body so large only a sliver fits inside the ...

[All links lead to Japanese language pages, except when noted otherwise] With a twist of humor, moral and technical support has been pouring in across social media sites for Japan's “corporate slaves” ...