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Shopping Spotlight: Village Vanguard

People talk about ‘weird Japan’. You know the stuff. Pachinko places, conveyor belt sushi restaurants, department stores that feel like […]

Every so often, a manga suddenly goes BOOM. It jumps straight into modern Japanese pop culture, so quick the ink’s hardly

Ah, Tokyo. It’s where most people arrive in (and leave) Japan. If you take a bullet train, your trip might

“Ii no ka? Yahoo! Auctions!” Since 1998, Yahoo! has dominated online auction services in Japan. (I guess we’re writing a