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One of Tokyo's ritziest hotels found itself in hot water over an art gallery exhibition that featured material sexualizing ...

Soni, a tiny village on the Nara-Mie border, has a tourism problem that doesn’t fit the usual overtourism story. To start, the village has about 1,200 residents. Last year, roughly 380,000 people ...

For a while, I’ve been seeing theories popping up to explain Japan’s supposed love for AI. Most of them involve Shinto, particularly the native religion’s belief in animism, the polytheistic principle ...