Japanese culture

Life

I Went to a Maid Cafe That’s Been Called ‘Hooters for Incels’

03.16.23

By Helen Meriel Thomas
Pulse

For Rent: Tokyo Apartment for $300. The Catch? It Has No Shower.

01.27.23

By Hanako Montgomery
Photos of Cosplayers Between the Worlds of Fiction and Reality

01.22.21

By Alvin Ng
Entertainment

‘Isle of Dogs’ Is a White Man’s Fantasy of Japan

04.09.18

By Michael Sun
Woodblock Prints Illustrate the History and Sensuality of Japanese Baths

07.17.17

By Andrew Salomone
Games

How ‘Persona 5’ Embraces the Devil on Your Shoulder

05.22.17

By Kyle Cardine
The Closing Credits to This Japanese TV Show Were The Most Emo Thing Ever

01.12.17

By Abdul Manan Rasudi
Travel

Photos of the Most Kawaii Costumes at a Brooklyn Cherry Blossom Festival

05.07.16

By Aaron Purkey; Words by Naomi Melati Bishop
Japan’s Building an Army of Over-Friendly Androids for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

09.08.15

By Mark Hay
Games

Meeting the Man Behind the Game Where You Harass and Kill Japanese Schoolgirls

07.03.15

By Max Wallis
Music

Meet FEMM, the Sentient Mannequin J-Pop Supergroup

12.11.14

By Molly Osberg
Music

What Happened at Japan’s Moshi Moshi Nippon Festival

10.08.14

By Daniel Robson

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Face it: You’ll never clean your pool as often as a robot will do it.

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Felt so nice, I had to try it twice—once with my partner and again with a vibrator.

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Music

3 Emo Lyrics I’ll Still Remember When the Rest of My Mind Is Gone

Honorable mention to “I can’t drown my demons, they know how to swim.”

8 hours ago

By Lauren Boisvert
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I Tried MOOD’s Blue Fire Dab Badder, A Flavorful Dab with an Upbeat High

Gassy spiced limeade aroma, soft texture, perfume-y flavor, and a tingly daytime high.

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By Maha Haq | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan
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Music

Lenny Kravitz Chooses to Wear the Most Bizarre Gym Apparel, but I Can’t Argue With His Logic

Lenny Kravitz works out in leather pants and jeans, which might seem unusual until you hear his logic, and then it all makes sense.

8 hours ago

By Stephen Andrew Galiher