Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

DNA analysis and other studies support the theory that modern Japanese have mixed origins in Jomon hunter-gatherers who inhabited broad areas of Japan from Hokkaido to Okinawa between 15,000 and ...

A Shanghai-based maker of “blind box” figurines made $1.8 billion last year—and continues to grow across the world.

The modern equivalent of the Tokiwa-so apartment where Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) and many other manga legends got their start is thriving in Hino, western Tokyo. The share house, Tama Tokiwa-so ...