Japan has pulled a mascot representing a cartoon tritium atom happily floating around in wastewater. People said the cuteness of the mascot undermined a serious issue, local media reported. Japan ...

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Some of you may curse the day that you – or perhaps more likely, your partner – heard of Marie Kondo. Ever since her multi-million selling The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying sparked a revolution in ...

Katelyn has been a writer since they learned to hold a pencil, but was a latecomer to the world of gaming, gradually falling in love with video games over the course of high school and college. They ...

As I sat on a tatami mat in the library of a 300-year-old Kyoto ryokan, my eyes were drawn to a Japanese translation of Walter Isaacson’s book, Steve Jobs. Yes, I was on vacation and, yes, on my ...

People clad in costumes paraded across sand dunes in western Japan ahead of Halloween. Tottori Prefecture hosted the event on ...

In Japan, mascots aren’t just for cheering on sports teams — they can be found everywhere from police departments to tourist areas as a way to attract new visitors. One popular mascot, Kumamon, was ...

2K Japan and Firaxis introduced Civ Dog in Japan, the new official promotional ambassador and mascot for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII. Civ Dog is an original character rendered in a cute chibi design, ...

Pokemon is one of the biggest franchises in the world, and it has a number of mascots for fans to lean into. From Pikachu to Eevee and beyond, the Pokemon Company has put its faith in a number of ...

Before there was Aloy, Nathan Drake, or even Ratchet and Clank, PlayStation had a pair of mascots in Toro Inoue and Kuro. Today, Sony celebrates the adorable white cat’s birthday, which falls on May 6 ...

Myakumyaku. Blue body, red head. Head? Shaped like a ring and full of eyes – seeing what, where? Nice things, judging by the vast white smile that lights up its… not face exactly… the space the head ...