Curated category
Japan in non-Japanese culture
- Street Fighter: Assassin's FistStreet Fighter: Assassin's Fist began not as a studio commission but as a passion project. Joey Ansah and Christian Howard released a short film called…
- Stone Bridge PressStone Bridge Press arrived in 1989 as one of the few American publishers willing to bet that English-speaking readers genuinely wanted books about Japan.
- Kappa MikeyKappa Mikey began not in a television studio but in a toy company. Larry Schwarz was working at Rumpus Toys, a toy design firm in New York City, when he…
- ChinpokomonChinpokomon is the eleventh episode to air in the third season of South Park, and it arrived on Comedy Central on the 3rd of November, 1999.
- For HonorFor Honor drops players into third-person melee duels as a Knight, a Viking, a Samurai, a Wu-lin warrior, or a member of a fifth faction called the…
- Good Times with Weapons"Good Times with Weapons" premiered on the 17th of March 2004, opening South Park's eighth season as the 112th episode of the series.
- Anime-influenced animationAnime-influenced animation is a body of work that sits in a curious middle ground: non-Japanese productions that look, feel, or move like something made in…
- Death Note (2017 film)Death Note reached Netflix in 2017 already carrying its own verdict. Critics summarized it almost like a warning label. It 'benefits from director Adam…
- JapanophiliaJapanophilia names an outside interest in Japanese culture, people, and history. Charles E. Tuttle Company once called the Irish-Greek writer Lafcadio Hearn…
- KamishibaiA Buddhist monk in 8th-century Japan unrolled a picture scroll called emaki to recount monastery history. These scrolls combined images and text to tell…
- DaikatanaDaikatana arrived in May 2000 with the weight of years of broken promises behind it. A first-person shooter from Ion Storm, it had been announced in 1997 as…