A couple years ago while attending Japanese classes I received a gift from my Japanese teacher. The gift was a book called Peach Boy Momotarō filled with mostly hiragana and pretty pictures that was supposed to help me with my Japanese language studies. She explained to me how popular the Momotarō...

The Astro Boy series is one of the big daddy’s of anime. Starting way back in the 1960′s Astro Boy is acknowledged as the first popular anime series with the manga dating back from 1951. Come later this year though Astro Boy will given a new lease on life and get the chance to be introduced...

Japan’s Princess Kiko gave birth on Wednesday to a baby boy, the first imperial male heir to be born in more than four decades and the answer to the prayers of conservatives keen to keep women off the ancient throne. The birth will scuttle for now a plan to let women ascend the throne, an idea...