Month: July 2025

Seven days, seven packs of Pop-Tarts. Watching foreign movies and TV series can provide you with unexpected insights into overseas lifestyles, and recently our Japanese-language reporter Takuya Inaba keeps noticing…

"Will Juuso Pärssinen get a fair shot at third-line center?" asks one reader in the Rangers mailbag.

The question about the NHL Draft should be as simple as "What's best for the product and the fans?"

The star of the Yamaguchi sake scene shows up in Shinjuku baked goods, and we’re ready for a trio of taste tests. Japan has so many sake makers that it…

You don’t need to specifically choose Pikachu, because it’s a promise that he’ll be in your Happy Meal. McDonald’s Japan is right in the middle of a collaboration with Sanrio,…

And if you can, should you? In a shocking turn of events, we recently found ourselves with leftover French fries. And we’re not talking about one or two unclaimed fries,…

The superstar placed a phone call to endorse Paul DeFazio, who was hired by Columbus after 25-plus years in the Penguins organization.

From the humble backyard plot to the royal Water Theatre Grove at Versailles, gardens have long been a source of sustenance, beauty, and spiritual communion. A forthcoming book from Phaidon…

Will the No. 3 draft pick in 2025 play in the NHL next season? Or will he return to Sweden to play for Djurgården in the SHL?

Tokyo is about to lose another site of game otaku history. It’s been a tumultuous couple of years for the arcade industry in Japan. Not even the otaku mecca of…