She’s Baba “Manga.” A Japanese graphic novel artist and psychic has foretold of a major disaster that’ll befall Japan in 2025 — and people are so spooked they’re canceling their summer vacations. Manga artist Ryo Tatsuki has drawn comparisons to the blind Bulgarian mystic “Baba Vanga” for her eerily accurate predictions of global events, which … Read more
Masahiro Shinoda, a leading director of the postwar Japanese New Wave whose films, notably “Pale Flower” and “Double Suicide,” fused pictorial beauty and fetishistic violence, died on March 25. He was 94. His production company, Hyogensha, said in a statement that the cause was pneumonia. It did not say where he died. In the 1960s … Read more
Passengers had to deal with hundreds of delayed flights on Saturday — because of a pair of scissors. A pair of shears went missing in a Japanese airport, causing security checks to be suspended for about two hours, local outlets reported. The scissors were missing from a store in the departure lounge of New Chitose … Read more
Experts warn that the United States may be following Japan’s worrying population decline after the Asian nation-state released new shocking data. Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS) recently revealed that a third of 18-year-old women may never have children. The island country recorded a population of 126.15 million in 2020 but … Read more
The wreckage of a U.S. submarine found off the coast of northern Japan has been identified as the USS Albacore – a vessel believed by the Navy to have struck a mine and sunk during the heart of World War II. The Naval History and Heritage Command made the announcement Thursday after several months of examining Japanese … Read more
There’s a side to Tokyo that is rather risque – and something I was not expecting. I had spent the day walking the streets of Shinjuku-ku, which is adorned with colourful neon street lights, endless buzzing bars, restaurants and karaoke rooms. The Skyscraper district is also home to the Tokyo Metropolitan Building, which boasts a … Read more