A deadly heatwave in Japan has claimed the lives of 40 people – including a young man dressed as a mascot dancing at a theme park. Yohei Yamaguchi died on Sunday after collapsing during a dance ...

Katelyn has been a writer since they learned to hold a pencil, but was a latecomer to the world of gaming, gradually falling in love with video games over the course of high school and college. They ...

A consortium of Japanese media companies is partnering with U.S. animation studio Tonko House to make an animation series starring Kumamon. The hugely popular character is the mascot of Kumamoto, a ...

Among MLB teams, I'd say the best and most popular mascot is the Phillie Phanatic. Pretty easily too. Shout out to Orbit, the Astros mascot, but the Phanatic has been around for a lifetime and its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Kumamon is the mascot for Kumamoto Prefecture and it initially ...

[…] The “Diwali” festival is like the Japanese holiday of O-shogatsu [the New Year's holiday]. Of course there will be curry served, and at the event ground ...

World, it’s time for you to meet Ippei the frog. Ippei-kun is Japan’s World Cup mascot, and he is, in a word, everything. He arrived in Russia on Sunday, and we know that because Ippei-kun has a ...

It’s time for America to meet Nyango Star, the Japanese celebrity mascot who seems to be a cross between an apple and a cat—and who plays the drums particularly well. It’s easy to see why Nyango Star ...