I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

The PBS series Monstrum examined the ancient Japanese legend of Bake-kujira, a ghostly whale that seeks vengeance on humans.

For the Japanese, summer is when the border between the real world and the spirit world becomes weak, and the legendary yōkai can walk among the living. The yōkai are a complex amalgamation of ...

Leaping off a rooftop onto a frozen lake was not how I wanted Naoe to spend her winter on one memorable occasion! Assassin’s Creed Shadows gets the win here since its take on Japan has so much to do ...

Western games rarely become major successes in Japan. After all, it's a country shaped by strong patriotism, something that's clearly reflected in the media consumed there. Domestic games generally ...

A recent example concerns Ghost of Tsushima and its sales performance in Japan. PS1 classic Crash 3 released in 1998, and became the very first non-Japanese first-party PlayStation game to reach ...

“Mondo Mizuki, Mondo Yokai” will showcase 100 original artworks, many exhibited outside Japan for the first time. Industry activities continue to expand with Focus Asia, now in its tenth editio ...

Taiwan industry icon Sylvia Chang will receive the Golden Mulberry lifetime achievement award at the 27th Far East Film Festival, which has set Chinese comedy “Green Wave” as its opening film. The Far ...

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In the years since, though, the Nagasaki Prefecture Shinto shrine which served as a model for one of the locations in the "Ghost of Tsushima" video game has been dealing with ... the announcement ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is set in the turbulent Sengoku period of Japanese history ... has already been killed by the legendary Yokai, the Yuki Onna, or Snow Woman, and can be found in the ...