On January 20th the yield on Japan’s 30-year government bond hit 3.8%, the highest in its quarter-century history, as the market digested scenarios for a snap election called for February 8th, which ...

Global media’s obsession with sensationalising Japan into its eccentric, often stereotyped image is reductive. The ...

Casio has announced a new G-SHOCK DW-5600 collaboration inspired by the 1995 Ghost in the Shell anime film, featuring Motoko ...

The notion of Japan as a “normal country” did not originally aim to negate pacifism. Rather, it emerged as a proactive ...

Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, was speaking at a political rally near a train station in the city of Nara ...

Columnist Helen Thomson investigates the neurological benefits of saunas, and how heat therapy can have anti-inflammatory ...

I’ll lay my cards out firmly on the table straight away here and admit that I love Japan – indeed, in my travels to more than 100 countries, it remains up there with my favourites. And the great news ...

A bold expression of toughness, authenticity, and modern skate heritage JERSEY CITY, N.J., /PRNewswire/ -- Casio America, Inc. is proud to announce a new limited-edition collaboration between G-SHOCK ...

Artist Evangeline Neo, best known online as evacomics, has a knack for spotting the exact moment when travel stops feeling ...

What if an authority figure directed you to pull a lever that delivered a painful shock to an unseen victim? If you’re like ...

Casio has launched two new Hokusai-themed G-Shock watches in Japan, continuing its collaboration with classic Japanese art. These new models follow the Hokusai editions released in 2025 and use the ...

Sexualized imagery featuring female bodies saturates Japan’s public spaces — from magazine covers in convenience stores to billboards on city streets — and has become widely normalized. In October ...