Brazil hosts the largest Japanese community outside Japan. In the early 20th century, Brazil needed labour. Japan faced population pressures. The Kasato Maru arrived in 1908 with immigrants.

It really feels like game sales are crawling towards the 5th June Switch 2 release date at the moment, but Famitsu has given us an updated look at the Japanese charts, and despite sluggish numbers ...

Featuring historical figures, ukiyo-e paintings and other aspects of Japanese culture, the exhibits will trace the history of Japan, encompassing the times of mythology, the Warring States period ...

In Solo Leveling, Sung Jinwoo's moral code and the limitations of his shadow extraction ability played a crucial role in his decision not to resurrect the defeated Japanese S-Rank hunters after ...

Details from the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey show that consumers expect wages to fall short of price increases and predict business conditions will worsen. Economists ...

Note: The population shown includes those who identify as Japanese alone and in combination with other races, ethnicities or Asian origins. For a list of Japanese in combination groups available in ...

Over a million copies of Super Mario Party Jamboree have been sold in Japan alone, showing the power of the Mario Party series. Debuting in 1999 on the Nintendo 64, the first Mario Party ...

The Japanese ... Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand for certain meaning. We'll show ...

The three-day decline has grown to as much as 14%. These charts show just how painful the market implosion has been. The S&P 500 peaked at 6,144 on February 19, putting the bear market "line in ...

Jack Black makes history today as viral hit Steve’s Lava Chicken from A Minecraft Movie, in which he stars, becomes the shortest song ever to make the UK’s Official Singles Chart. Coming in at ...

A popular Japanese variety show on Nippon Television apologised after editing a street interview with a Chinese woman in a way that implied people in her country ate crows. The inflammatory ...

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 zooms back to Number 1 on this week’s Official Film Chart. The third instalment in the Jeff Fowler-directed action-adventure comedy series, based on the iconic video game of ...