Month: September 2025

Pablo Torre follows three rules when choosing which mystery to solve on his influential podcast: smart, funny and surprising. Plus maybe a little sexy. An investigation into the best football…

Corey Pronman ranks the best young players affiliated with NHL teams, from 1 to 173.

The shutter and curtain come down on the first arcade Sega ever opened in Japan’s biggest gamer neighborhood. With Sunday being the last day of August, and so arguably the…

One person’s trash is another’s treasure. When we think of industrial waste, we usually imagine chemicals pouring out of factories or mountains of unused clothing from fast fashion brands. Traditional…

The tie-in cafe to a Hokusai exhibition at the Creative Museum Tokyo will feature a menu that pays homage to the beloved artist’s famous works. Celebrated Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai…

The chain’s first-ever Japanese-style sweet pizza has some very surprising ingredients.  In Japan, there’s a lot more to matcha than just matcha lattes. Here, you can find powdered green tea…

If you’re paying people to intimidate others into doing what you want them to do, doesn’t that make you a mobster? One of the quirkiest corners of the Japanese economy…

Some things never change, even when they do. It’s often been said that the Internet just isn’t what it used to be. The days of signing a guestbook for a…

A micro-sized trip back to the glory days of the PS1 and 2. We’ve still got big smiles on our faces from the tiny manga that we got on our…