A Japanese publisher is arrested for allegedly grafting the heads of rock stars onto the bodies of porn stars.

Be advised, we have no idea what is happening on Japanese TV.

He eats ramen with lacquered chopsticks, but he's just an American joe!

Created as a mascot for a musical software company, Miku has leapt to fame as a musical icon. Here's how

Quarantine is not ending anytime soon, and neither are Netflix's offerings of comedies, dramas, docs, anime & more

In the fourth of his dispatches from the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Gary Kamiya muses on Japanese English, the quest for tosto and hamburgers done in retro

A reader needs a spanking, or at least she needs Cary to indulge her desire for hot verbal transgression -- and she gets it.

Cellphone novels, the rage in Japan, now have competition in America: Twitter fiction.

Slide show: Sick of the ice and snow? We look at the world's best hot springs, from Italy to Indonesia

Glimpse the breathtaking range of Japanese "deco era" art -- highbrow, lowbrow and everything in between

A Japanese teenager who might not really be either Japanese or a teenager wins millions of viewers with cutesy, subtly sexual, surreal, mainly pointless videos. Discuss.

Many of the blast's survivors were Korean forced laborers. They would suffer the rest of their lives

Japanese activist Tamaki Matsuoka captures veterans admitting their crimes on camera

A true crime story set in Tokyo illuminates the complicated truths behind media cliches

A visually intense but rambling meditation on the power of memory that moves frame by frame and flake by flake.