The Chinese "Lola head" is a natural permanent, and the Japanese movie "Shimotsuma Monogatari" is "Kamikaze Girls" when it is English.rucksackYaZeldThe origin of the word is German, conversely ...

A Lolita-ish loner and a gum-chewing biker chick team up for adventures in kitschy-colored mix of cartoony characters in a modern fairytale-like setting. Adaptation by Tetsuya Nakashima ("Beautiful ...

Youth fashion in Japan used to march in lockstep from trend to trend, led by magazines with names like pandas (An An, Non No). No more. Tribes of conformist individualists still exist, all wearing the ...

New People, the nation's first retail and entertainment complex dedicated to Japanese popular culture, opens on Post Street on Saturday. J-Pop, as its friends call it, is all about the cultural ...

TOKYO, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Japanese writer Novala Takemoto was arrested for alleged possession of marijuana after being stopped in Tokyo Monday. The 39-year-old, who wrote "Shimotsuma Monogatari" ...

In show business, you can't look as if you made up your own labels. Only someone as big as Michael Jackson gets away with calling himself the King of Pop. Last month, when singer Anna Tsuchiya ...