For the Japanese, summer is when the border between the real world and the spirit world becomes weak, and the legendary yōkai ...

Or you might buy a cooking pot that screamed when you put it on the fire and revealed itself to be a tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog), badly burnt and probably dead. (Tanuki are rather inept shape ...

Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai was recently awarded the Art Encouragement Prize from the Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs for his remarkable achievement with the ...

The Wallpaper* A/W 2025 trend report: raw glamour, waistlines and an animal instinct As Paris Fashion Week concludes, Wallpaper* fashion features editor Jack Moss unpacks five trends which defined the ...