'City Hunter The Movie: Shinjuku Private Eyes': Dated gags in modern-day Tokyo
It's back. "City Hunter," the Tsukasa Hojo-penned manga about a crime-solving "sweeper" for hire named Ryo Saeba (Akira Kamiya) was pretty much an anime institution in the 1980s, adapted into a string of anime series and films starting in 1987. It even spawned a ...
Japan's health ministry draws on 'City Hunter' manga nostalgia to promote rubella vaccine to men
The government is promoting free vaccinations against rubella for men age 39 to 56, using characters from a manga series thought to resonate with that generation. The number of reported rubella cases in 2018 surged to the second-highest level since 2008, when the current survey ...
Harajuku and Omotesando: Where pop and luxury fashion are friendly neighbors
A Fashionable 'pearing' A shrill and rather bouncy yellow pear has captured the public's imagination. Funassyi, an unofficial city mascot of Funabashi in Chiba Prefecture, takes its name from "Funabashi" and "nashi," the Japanese word for "pear." It has become so popular that it's already ...
