From business through health, Japanese concepts often enlighten and set the course for nations and cultures across the world. Happy Science Group has a stall at the ongoing Chennai Book Fair where Sontoku Ninomiya: The Spirit of Japanese Prosperity, a manga comic, is a key feature. Mean relatives, mean and indolent villagers, mean co-workers and mean climate – Sontoku’s life …
Fans of the anime Oshi No Ko have been drawing comparisons between the show’s plot and a real-life incident that occurred in 2016 involving Mayu Tomita, a Japanese pop idol who was stabbed by a fan. However, despite the clear connection between the two incidents, Aka Akasaka, the mangaka of Oshi No Ko, has not explicitly related the two events. …
The highs of Thursday were tempered with reality on Friday as Indian women wrestlers ran up against a Japanese wall in the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships, faltering in each of the five weight categories on the day. Drawn up against her nemesis Mayu Mukaida in the quarterfinal, Vinesh was unable to break her losing streak, going down 2-6 before winning …
