How good is Mario Kart World doing? Well, it topped the charts in Japan for a fourth straight week! Get the details here!

What to read next? View weekly lists of bestselling books, reviews and recommendations compiled by the staff of.

We all have at least one person in our lives who is tempted to start watching anime, but the overwhelming number of choices, subtitles, wacky character designs, occasionally odd sense of humor, ...

The novelist draws on Japanese-Korean history to create a restless, leisurely and capacious work that takes in a sweep of ...

Selected by David Rooney, the author, most recently, of “The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and ...

There have been more than 900 earthquakes, most of them small tremors, on islands off the southern tip of Kyushu in recent ...

When life is stressful, reading can offer a welcome reprieve. Here are the books we recommend to make you feel better about ...

Japanese literature in translation has been booming lately: Butter, those books about cats and cafés. The latest intriguing, unsettling title is Hunchback, which tells the story of a woman in a care ...

Viral rumours of impending disaster stemming from a comic book prediction have taken the sheen off Japan's tourism boom, with ...

Planning your first trip to Japan? These essential travel tips cover everything from etiquette to apps—what to know before ...