TW Pop Culture Update: Shiori Ito Wins Twitter Lawsuit and Kamen Rider Stirs Conversation About Race How do you prove to someone that you’re real? In the case of journalist Shiori…
TW Pop Culture Update: Japanese Celebrities Open Up About Mental Health After a number of Japanese celebrities took their lives last year, including Yuko Takeuchi, Haruma Miura,…
TW Pop Culture Update: Prince Harry Gets Cocky with His New Job Japan is no stranger to acronyms and abbreviations. After all, they are the ones who…
TW Pop Culture Update: Naomi Watanabe Has Had Quite a Month Naomi Watanabe has had a tremendous career. Starting out as a comedian, she rose to…
Travel Back in Time With These 5 Manga From the ’90s And Early ’00s As we continue to stay sheltered indoors, various forms of media have seen an explosion…
TW Pop Culture Update: The Shrinking World of Japanese Entertainment It’s been two months since Arashi went on indefinite hiatus, and many are still having…
On this Day in Japan: Nintendo Released the First Pokemon Games On this day 25 years ago, Nintendo released two versions of a role-playing game that…
Pandemic Diaries: Reading Over 1,300 Chapters of Hajime no Ippo As far as pandemic-related stay-at-home hobbies go, I wasn’t able to get on the sourdough…
Is the Clock Ticking on TikTok in Japan? If it’s true that when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold,…
TW Pop Culture Update: Yusuke Iseya Grounded by Japan’s Tough Marijuana Laws On September 8, Yusuke Iseya, whom you might remember from the live-action Rurouni Kenshin movies,…
The Secret History of Nintendo in Kyoto Nintendo has become a global phenomenon, but it wasn’t always that way. When they entered…
TW Asked, You Answered: Have you ever seen a ghost in Japan? We love a good ghost story here at TW. We don’t necessarily like seeing ghosts,…
TW Pop Culture Update: More Japanese Celebrities Catch a Case of the Covid Who’s your favorite Japanese celebrity? Not to jinx it or anything but chances are that…
