In a recent surprise celebration, Ito has been made an ambassador of his hometown in Japan and the occasion has warranted a hilariously bizarre tribute. Junji Ito manhole covers are now a thing as ...

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani is among 12 active Japanese MLB players that will be celebrated with custom manhole covers ...

Major League Baseball has announced that special manhole covers featuring Japanese players currently active in the professional league will be installed in their hometowns, starting next Monday.

Major League Baseball will celebrate the league’s 12 active Japanese players through custom manholes that will feature one player in each design, to be installed at locations associated with that ...

Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao ...

Japan's growth is slowing this year due to the weakness in both domestic and external demand amid concerns over food price spikes and the U.S. high tariff policy, a senior World Bank economist has ...

Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo leans into a trendy artistic canvas in Japan to trace the players’ journeys to the global stage.

Once polluted and suffering from depopulation, Naoshima has become Japan's hottest contemporary art enclave – and there are signs that life there may be finally rebounding. Shinichi Kobayashi ...

A photograph of a manhole cover in Seattle bearing the “Made in India” label has sparked a lively online discussion after it was shared on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).

The song I’m proudest of on Virgin.” The cover art is a tight shot of the Grammy winner’s torso with duct tape covering her chest, and fans picked up that it looked almost identical to the ...

A new report from Japan has found that Japanese residents are spending an estimated $44 billion (6.45 trillion Yen) on illegal offshore betting. A new report from Japan has found massive ...