TOKYO -- "Just shut your mouths. And invest everything in me!" This line from the anime "Attack on Titan" was quoted by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in December 2025 during a pitch to Saudi investors ...

Investments in Japan’s huge video game industry may be appealing to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince – Copyright AFP Richard A. Brooks Crown Prince Mohammed bin ...

A global image for Japan, Doraemon combines cuteness with faith in technology. But with the robot cat seeming increasingly rooted in the past, Tokyo’s soft-power brokers face a dilemma. Earlier this ...

What is the most powerful instrument of Japanese soft power? If you answered anime or manga, you are not completely wrong, but you are not thinking big enough. A clue to the correct answer was ...