Be still, our hearts (and be even stiller, our wallets, because we may be about to drop a lot of money) – Animate, Japan’s largest retailer of anime, manga, and video games, will be making its return ...

On a rare hot San Francisco day, two museum patrons greeted each other outside of the de Young Museum. One glanced at the enormous "Art of Manga" signage and her thoughts turned toward Italian ...

The hangout of choice for generations of Tokyo intellectuals, Jimbocho is a historic university enclave and a bibliophile nirvana that enjoys a charmed existence just a quick stroll away from the city ...

The exhibition, opening at the de Young Museum on Sept. 27, features rarely displayed genga (original drawings) by 10 major artists, including Araki Hirohiko, Oda Eiichiro, Tagame Gengoroh, Takahashi ...

Park Chan-wook's Korean drama 'No Other Choice,' headlined by Lee Byung-hun, opened at the top of the South Korean box office with $4.5 million.

This innovative, decades-spanning drama is the best superhero series that Disney has released in years. (Sorry, MCU.) It follows a group of super-powered parents with ordinary jobs (played by Zo ...

Japantown is only made up of a few blocks, but it's packed with so much to do and eat that it would take multiple days and a detailed spreadsheet to check out all of its stores, cafes, and restaurants ...

There are lots of streaming services to choose from and some are better than others. Netflix and Disney+ are here, plus a few you may not be aware of.

Bellevue College is excited to host its Ninth Annual Japan Week, a week-long event that starts on October 6th and concludes with a public celebration on October 11th. The event is presented free of ...

These anime were some of the biggest events of the '90s, but almost 30 years later, nobody seems to remember any of them anymore.

Graphic novel popularity is at an all-time high, but not without the Japanese art of manga. The de Young museum ushers in the historical first North American manga exhibit.

TAKARA Oriental Store was opened on April 9, 2022, by owners William (Bill) and Kaoru (Cookie) Wadsworth. In October of 2024, they moved to 111 Main Street. They wanted to develop a business that ...