Japanese popular culture includes Japanese cinema, cuisine, television programs, anime, manga, video games, music, and doujinshi, all of which retain older...

opened Japan to Western influences, enriching and diversifying Japanese culture. Popular culture shows how much contemporary Japanese culture influences...

the popularity of Japanese idols. The use of the term "bromide" to refer to a celebrity photograph remains a part of Japanese popular consciousness, and...

"People Types: Personality Classification in Japanese Women's Magazines". The Journal of Popular Culture. 11 (2): 436–452. Nawata, Kengo (2014). "No relationship...

big eyes and small mouths, and has become a prominent aspect of Japanese popular culture, influencing entertainment (including toys and idols), fashion...

frequently a theme in Japanese popular culture, including film, manga, anime, and video games. Shinto has influenced Japanese culture and history and as...

stock characters in Japanese and global popular culture. Ninjas first entered popular culture in the Edo period. In modern Japan, ninja are a national...

Korea and Japan have reached a consensus to open up a policy of accepting the culture of the other. Japanese popular culture has become more popular among...

There is significant awareness of Japanese popular culture in the United States. The flow of Japanese animation, fashion, films, manga comics, martial...

In Japan, mobile phones became ubiquitous years before the phenomenon spread worldwide. In Japanese, mobile phones are called keitai denwa (携帯電話), literally...

Necrophilia has been a topic in popular culture. Romantic connections between love and death are a frequent theme in Western artistic expression. In the...

Japanese street fashion refers to a number of styles of contemporary modern clothing in Japan. Created from a mix of both local and foreign fashion brands...

dragons in popular culture. Dragons in some form are nearly universal across cultures and as such have become a staple of modern popular culture, especially...

loop-based story". The time loop is a popular trope in Japanese pop culture media, especially anime. Its use in Japanese fiction dates back to Yasutaka Tsutsui's...

characters in popular culture. One writer on witches, Judika Illes, wrote, "No spirit exerts more fascination over media and popular culture than Lilith...

the defining aspects of Japanese popular culture for many people worldwide." CFP: In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage...

Stevens, Carolyn S. (May 2011). "Touch: Encounters with Japanese Popular Culture". Japanese Studies. 31 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1080/10371397.2011.559898....

The Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus), also known by its Japanese name tanuki (Japanese: 狸, たぬき), is a species of canid endemic to Japan. It...

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fiction. This is not to say that Japanese popular culture has not depicted "evil albinos". However, such characters in Japanese fiction are often bishōnen or...

fictional kraken are found in film, literature, television, and other popular culture forms. In various comics, particularly DC and Marvel Comics, multiple...

has had a significant impact on modern popular culture. Mad Max references are deeply embedded in popular culture; references to its dystopian, apocalyptic...

The mythological Greek deity Hades often appears in popular culture. In spite of his present neutrality and lack of bad deeds, he is often portrayed as...

and the famous character of Frankenstein's monster, have influenced popular culture for at least a century. The work has inspired numerous films, television...

gestures and body language recognized by some Westerners and the Japanese. The Japanese beckoning gesture is made by holding up the hand, palm down, and...

entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in other performance skills...

E-toki (horizontal, illustrated narrative form) Japanese language Soft power § Japan Japanese popular culture Kamishibai Lianhuanhua (small Chinese picture...

Cool Japan (クールジャパン, Kūru Japan) refers to the aspects of Japanese culture that non-Japanese people perceive as "cool". After the success of "Cool Britannia...

松村明 (November 2006). 大辞林 daijirin (in Japanese). 三省堂. ISBN 4-385-13905-9. 日本国語大辞典 Nihon Kokugo Daijiten (in Japanese) (2nd ed.). Tōkyō: Shogakukan. 2000...

The Japanese macaque (Japanese: 日本猿 Nihonzaru), characterized by brown-grey fur, a red face and buttocks, and a short tail, inhabits all of the islands...