Solo Leveling has revolutionized the idea of powerful characters. Many of its most skilled hunters are separated by countries, like Japan's Goto Ryuji. Understandably, since anime hails from Japan, ...

A new national survey reveals which anime characters -- both classic and modern -- Japanese women most enjoy cosplaying as in 2025.

Actor Andrew Koji, who is half Japanese and was born and raised in England, said he’s always felt out of place. But in the new action-comedy film “Bullet Train,” Koji plays a Japanese character, and ...

Translators localize Animal Crossing character names based on cultural references, impacting their English versions. Characters like Clay, Coco, and Cyrano have Japanese names inspired by historical ...

Seihan Mori, chief Buddhist priest at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, writes the Chinese "mitsu", meaning "congested" or "dense", as the character was selected as the single best kanji symbolising the ...

The Japanese Olympic Committee has licensed several of the nation’s most iconic anime characters to serve as goodwill ambassadors to promote the upcoming Tokyo Olympics in general and Japan’s athletes ...

Character Rares and Radiant Pokémon were not present in Lost Abyss, the direct previous Japanese set, but they are back in a big way for Incandescent Arcana. Unlike the English-language TCG sets, ...

The Maria Beetle author, alongside the director and writer of its big screen adaptation Bullet Train, have opened up about the film’s decision to cast non-Japenese actors in the upcoming Sony feature ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Monday selected a kanji character used to encourage social distancing as its defining symbol for 2020, highlighting a catchphrase used extensively during the coronavirus ...