The three-day festival of food, music, cosplay and culture is in town Dubai: Meet Hatsune Miku and your favourite anime characters at Japan Culture Con (JCC), which is back for its second edition this ...

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Japan has mastered the art of playing the victim to an unparalleled degree. Back in 1937, Japan cooked up the excuse of a "missing soldier" to justify its attacks on Chinese forces at the Lugou Bridge ...

gamescom 2023 was filled to the brim with some incredible cosplay, and the official gamescom cosplay contest showed off some of the best of the best and rewarded these incredible people with some ...

The rapid growth in the number of people cosplaying since the 1990s has made the phenomenon a significant portion of pop ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has published a comprehensive disaster guide. It’s recommended that you download it and read it right now (or even better, after you read it, print it out and stick ...

Japan is said to have drawn up its first calendar in 604. It was a lunar calendar based on the phases of the moon, introduced from China via the Korean Peninsula. Over the centuries, seasonal events ...

Japan is not only a land of temples and shrines ... but also mosques. The latter is due to a sharp rise in marriages between Muslims and Japanese citizens and Japanese converts over two decades that ...

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