Narrator: Sampuru is so lucrative, the industry is estimated to be worth $90 million in Japan alone. But let's take a step back and see how they make plastic look good enough to eat. At the Morino ...

Shutaro Takeda became the first Japanese to earn the title of a knight in nearly 90 years. Also known as the Knights of Malta, the organization is an independent sovereign state without a ...

Western and Japanese audiences alike look back fondly on the '90s era of anime, which saw the premiere of numerous franchises ...

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist '80s ...

called "Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon" in Japan, on TV Asahi. By the late '90s, "Sailor Moon" had made its way to American viewers, like me, who were astonished by its distinctive visuals.

Fuji. Apparently not challenged enough by Japan’s highest peak, he almost immediately took up surfing. Sano turns 90 later this year, and after being recognized by Guinness World Records as the ...

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

Here's to an unforgettable decade in sci-fi movie innovation, our round-up of the best 90s sci-fi movies. The 1990s was a time of firsts in the sci-fi genre - the beginnings of much-loved ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Local residents walk between collapsed houses at a tsunami-devastated residential area in the town of Suzu A woman in her 90s has been found ... struck central Japan. Rescue workers discovered ...

From the Spice Girls to runway shows and beyond, they were one of the shoe trends that defined the '90s. An iconic moment in fashion history is when supermodel Naomi Campbell walked a '93 Vivienne ...

A woman in her 90s has been found alive under rubble five days after a devastating earthquake struck central Japan. Rescue workers discovered her in the wreckage of a two-storey building in the ...