Manga dominate the top five this week. By Billboard Japan Taiki Kawakami, Fuse, and Mitz Vah’s Tensei Shitara Suraimu Datta Ken (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) Vol. 31 rules this week’s ...

Square Enix released Gummi candies modeled after the Dragon Quest slime in Japan. The snacks are now available in select convenience stores across the Kanto region, which includes Tokyo. A single pack ...

To get you started with the basics of Japanese, Slime Forest Adventure is a great beginner’s tool to acquaint you with basic hiragana and katakana, with the former being the basic building blocks of ...

In the film The Wizard of Oz, the scarecrow famously pines for a brain but eventually comes to realize that he already possesses all the smarts he needs. Similarly, acellular slime molds—strange, ...

Slime Tactics will launch for Switch via the Nintendo eShop on April 11 for 1,000 yen, publisher Flyhigh Works and developer Altair Works announced. The real-time tactics game puts players in control ...

New trends such as double-cleansing are emerging in Asia, where consumers are committed to a thorough regimen at home As spring approaches, STYLE spoke to Jane Anders, head of innovation, Estée Lauder ...

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as ...

Dragon Quest Heroes will launch for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 in Japan on February 26, 2015, Square Enix announced during today’s “Dragon Quest Heroes TV” live stream. The PlayStation 4 version ...

Toshiyuki Nakagaki, professor of Future University Hakodate Credit: Photo: SHINGO ITO/AFP/Getty Images Toshiyuki Nakagaki, a professor at Future University Hakodate, northern Japan, cultivates the ...

A brainless, primeval organism able to navigate a maze might help Japanese scientists devise the ideal transport network design. Not bad for a mono-cellular being that lives on rotting leaves.

Let’s hear it for slime molds. Researchers in Japan have shown that a slime mold can design a network that is as efficient as one developed by humans over many years: the Tokyo rail system.

Talented and dedicated engineers spent countless hours designing Japan’s rail system to be one of the world’s most efficient. Could have just asked a slime mold. When presented with oat flakes ...