Submissions for the East Asian High School Illustration Contest 2021 are now open, and the competition is starting to heat up over on the submission…

Curiosity makes the world go round. It runs deep in our blood, like an instinct left behind from our most ancient ancestors. Without it we…

Every year an original calendar featuring astronomical photographs taken by contributors from the public is published by Vixen – a company that produces a wide…

The now annual “High School Girl Miss Contest” (Joshi Kousei Miss Contest) by Model Press, a voting based competition to decide Japan’s “cutest high school…

If you’ve ever found yourself looking over the plethora of beer cans in the alcohol section of Japanese supermarkets and convenience stores, you may have…

While anime character heavyweights such as Goku, Luffy, Sailor Moon, and Naruto have been named as official “ambassadors” of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, an…