Designed to let foreign goods in while keeping foreign ideas out, this Nagasaki neighborhood is one of the most historically significant places in Japan.

New menu items and more make for the perfect place to grab a kawaii bite after shopping in a major Tokyo department store.

You’ll find many brands in Japan, ranging from obscure to eminently recognisable. At the very top of the chain are brands that are so well known they’ve become household names, and two of those are ...

Although the latest Demon Slayer film has been dominating the box office in Japan for the past nine weeks in a row, one movie that came very close to dethroning it several times was the live-action ...

The original arrest took place on 29 August, when the man was caught attempting to steal a fire hose nozzle in Kannami Town, Shizuoka Prefecture. The man admitted to the charges but remained in ...

Stories in Gloomy Bear tag.

There was a time when the vast majority of people in Japan didn’t have family names. During the feudal era, surnames were for the exclusive use of the nobility and warrior classes, so if you weren’t a ...

Everyone knows about McDonald’s nuggets, or “McNuggets”, but did you know there are heart-shaped shrimp nuggets on the menu in Japan?

As a result, it was found that the zebra-striped cattle had half as many flies landing on them, and they also exhibited fewer shooing actions than the other two pairs. This finding could lead to an ...

It’s hard to believe there’s a little less than a month to go before the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo closes for good. As things began to wind down, the Expo held an event to honor both the international ...

It’s a great contest, but only the very beginning of the Umaibo Festival. While they’re hinting at something big happening on 11 November, other special events and contests are also planned between ...

Our Japanese-language reporter Natsuno Futon recently took a trip to Fukushima Prefecture to visit its Pokémon Chansey Park. For her next park-going day, she once again found beloved Japanese ...