Japan’s craziest mascot. This is because the account keeps buying ad space to protect other users from ads, and its replies often go viral for its positivity or chaos. The YouTooz Chiitan plush ...

These extra-plush, squishy stuffed toys are fun for imaginative play, make comfy pillows and are just nice to hug. However, it’s not just the Squishmallows brand that makes adorable Halloween ...

Takara Tomy will release gacha figures of Sanrio mascots hugging smaller plush versions of themselves in mid-November 2024.

JOMON (10,000 - 300 B.C.) Prehistoric period of tribal/clan organization. Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan. 660 B.C. Mythological Jimmu ("Divine ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...

Japan’s influence on menswear over the past several decades has been profound. At this stage, in fact, it’s practically to the point of cliché. Ask a cool guy who makes his cool pants.

"You're so cute, you're so little," she told her daughter, whom she also called "a squishy squishy baby" in text over the clip. A third Instagram Stories post showed Munn smiling at the camera ...

on a university campus in Japan. Carrion crows and humans line up patiently, waiting for the traffic to halt. When the lights change, the birds hop in front of the cars and place walnuts ...

The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to expand its coalition to stay in power. By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and ...

What does a Japanese person recall? Doraemon, the friendly robot helper of an enormously popular eponymous anime series. So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests ...

By David Waldstein Masa Kawai wore his faded Yankees cap on Wednesday as he served customers at the Japanese doughnut shop he owns in Edgewater, N.J. It was two days before Game 1 of a World ...

This pair was all over TikTok, for their ultra-plush molded footbed that cradles your foot atop a 1.77-inch platform. Executive editor Sally Kaplan says these feel like "walking on squishy clouds ...