Almost a decade after its founding, Cool Japan Fund Inc. may be merged with other investment funds or eliminated if it cannot turn around its losses soon. That was a proposal a subcommittee of the ...

The central government originally created Cool Japan Fund Inc. in 2013 to support overseas sales of cultural products such as anime and Japanese cuisine, and saw it as a potential winner that ...

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“Japanese films, television shows, games and enemies are fast tracking what’s known as the New Cool Japan strategy,” Neubronner said, adding that at past TIFF MPA events, “We have watched ...

Japanese skiing is absolutely one of a kind. It’s a pretty cool feeling to do something you are probably very familiar with (skiing) in a completely foreign place. Many ski resorts feel very quirky, ...

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But at Zauo Fishing Restaurant-- with locations in Osaka, Tokyo, and elsewhere in Japan -- you won't sing for your supper, but you will fish for it. That's right, if you choose, you can fish for ...

The traditional katana sword is fashioned only from the purest steel, which the Japanese call tamahagane ... it into a trough of water in a rapid cool-down process called "quenching." ...

Now robotics engineers at the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory in Japan have created a janken robot ... against a computerized glove. Not quite as cool, but maybe easier to build.

That's how Jesse Jo Stark, the creative director of L.A.-based jewelry label Chrome Hearts, describes her new collaboration with the 131-year-old pearl jewelry maker Mikimoto. Launching Friday, ...