If you thought romance was dead, think again. According to a report by the South Morning China Post, a Japanese man who married a fictional cartoon pop singer Hatsune Miku in 2018 is still happily ...

A Japanese man, who married a fictional character ... The vocaloid is represented as cartoon character of a 16-year-old pop singer with giant blue ponytails. Taking to Instagram, Kondo shared ...

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

The Japanese icon, celebrating her golden jubilee ... Chinese companies are investing in new cartoons; Sanrio, too, frequently puts out more characters. Since 2017 Cinnamoroll, a dog with a ...

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 ...

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

Japan joined the World Bank in August 1952, the year after the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Starting in 1953, a number of projects were implemented in Japan with World Bank loans for the ...

Known as the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan's civilization dates as far back as 30,000 years. Today, the archipelago seamlessly blends its rich history with its ultra-modern present. And while its ...

Shaquille O'Neal dominated the paint with the Lakers for 8 years, and now has his number hanging in the rafters at Crypto.com Arena.

Even though Japan's greenhouse gas emissions have decreased throughout the past decade, air pollution causes over 44 thousand deaths annually. Rapid industrial development, economic growth ...

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