Day: August 5, 2026

Before Hitachi Seaside Park turns red for autumn, it’s got a beautiful summer color to show you too. Japan is a country with strong swings between its seasons, often resulting…

After years of this video game horror trying to eat us, it’s finally going to help us with our hunger instead. The first foes that spring to mind when thinking…

Even if they’ve been professionally cleaned, used school swimsuits are too dirty for this marketplace. Mercari is Japan’s largest online flea market, a place where individual sellers offer an extremely…

The spiral is one of the most ubiquitous, universal symbols. Or perhaps it is more apt to describe the motif as mimicked from nature, where it occurs in the form…

New stores add a fresh taste and aroma to high-speed travel on Japan’s busiest bullet train route. One of the joys of Shinkansen travel is being able to bring your…

In 2022, New York resident and bonafide feline devotee Dan Rimada felt that something needed to be done to shine a light on the city’s cats. The Big Apple not…

The 20th birthday of a local legend calls for collaborations with Hello Kitty, Chubu Centrair International Airport, and 15 local businesses. March 28, 2027 will mark 20 years to the…

An ex-member of the Rangers' in-game hype team accused superfan Larry Goodman of "a pattern of persistent and unwelcome physical contact."

Office suites have changed a lot since the first ones landed on desktops decades ago. What began as basic tools for typing letters and totaling numbers has turned into sprawling…

Whether playing a game of Uno on the back patio by the light of a headlamp or wading into a preternaturally still body of water on a pitch-black night, the…