In many countries, turkey is traditionally made as a part of the Christmas feast. However, in Japan a traditional Christmas dinner generally includes Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). How? Well, this is a ...

It's fair to say British food gets a bad rap. From mushy peas to battered Mars bars, the stuff us Brits shovel into our gob has long been the source of a great deal of international derision, ...

When I moved to Japan more than five years ago from the United States, where I worked for two design-forward digital media startups, I struggled with the Japanese internet. The first challenge ...

This year’s Japanese literature in English translation was yet again ruled by a clowder of cozy cat fiction and the occasional crime story. But 2025 wasn’t without some surprises. Two ghostly figures ...

Many old school motor shows have rebranded in recent years from out-and-out car events to ones that would purport to cover other forms of transport too, usually with the word ‘mobility’ somewhere ...

In a cooperation with Daihatsu and HAL College of Technology and Design in Japan, students show their vision of minicars in the future. Where is car design heading? Answering that question is well ...

The Tokyo Mobility show is ostensibly Japan’s biggest car show. But it’s also a place for manufacturers to show off their more experimental ideas. Here are some of the zaniest concepts on display.

I find it annoying when visitors to Japan return marvelling at how ‘weird’ everything is. Just because their alphabet is indecipherable to a Westerner, the roads are dominated by pint-sized kei cars ...

Where it lives: Steppes and meadows in Asia, notably China, India, Japan, Korea and Russia. It's also found in Africa and parts of Europe. Some populations are migratory. What it eats: Seeds of ...

A tsunami might have occured some 115 million years ago, near where deposits of Cretaceous amber were found in Japan. Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 Scientists in Japan have uncovered amber deposits ...

Natali Khomenko went to Japan to celebrate her 32nd birthday Natali Khomenko shared a TikTok video claiming she discovered a man hiding under her bed in a hotel room in Tokyo "I thought that he will ...