On American game shows, you answer questions and win money. In the rest of the world, you get naked and bob for false teeth in a bucket of pig eyeballs.

Despite the fact that many of its elements were alien to American audiences, the film became a sensation

"Spirited Away" and other classic anime from Hayao Miyazaki, an almost-forgotten '80s musical, the action star who couldn't and the long-awaited DVD premiere of "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo."

Some say putting civilian contributors at the controls of our warships is reckless -- but did that cause the deaths of nine Japanese?

The sex scenes -- intense, affecting and emotionally raw -- are the best thing about this frustratingly limp movie.

'Godzilla' is about as profound as a bad Saturday-morning cartoon, but it will make your kid go to the bathroom five times.

As Japan & South Korea reach an agreement on the painful subject, some books to help the reader untangle the past

As a phone sex operator, I pretend to be someone I'm not. But my dishonesty and manipulation serves a noble purpose

Toshio Saeki, Japan's master of erotic illustration, devours the world with his demented images of outr

Especially when those people explicitly espouse the superiority of the white race

In a country that favors group-feeling to individualism, two fashion-based subcultures, "egg girls" and "little gals," cause a big stir.

My first hostessing jobs in Japan were at seedy strip joints where no self-respecting girl, much less geisha, would go. Second in a continuing series.

“Think the size and shape of a sewing thimble soft, wine cork erect"

The smell of smoke in the cockpit, and it's back to Boston for a planeload of fixated Japanese tourists.

Japan debates changing the 2,000-year-old rules of its monarchy.