From Ningin: Manga fans get ready to save up some money, because a new quarterly manga magazine called F*X*T (pronounced “fix it”) will be making an appearance in the United States next year in January 2011. More »

From Ningin: McDonald’s is known for providing fast food for cheap prices. However, a Japanese YouTuber felt the need to bring a mini-scale to a McDonald’s fast food restaurant to weigh the fries and get his money’s worth of food. More »

From Ningin: In Okegawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan a student on her way home from a part time job was hit by car and robbed afterwards by the driver. More »

From Ningin: Okay, so the above picture isn’t actually the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library in Japan, but I’m guessing this is what a section of it may look like. There’s no doubt that manga and anime have become an integral part of Japanese culture, so it makes sense that Japanese libraries would start stocking manga- and anime-related material. More »

From Ningin: Nana Osaki from the anime/manga series Nana has got to be one of the most badass female characters out there. So, of course, there would be plenty of badass cosplay of her like the one pictured above. More »

From Girlybubble: Making yourself feel at home couldn’t be any cuter with San-X’s Wanroom. Falling in line with the tradition of being unconventional, nonsensical and cute, Wanroom is basically a collection of household items with dog faces. Each Wanroom character has a name like Inusofa (a couch), Wano’clock (an alarm clock) and Sabowan (a cactus). More »

From Ningin: In a sad twist of fate, a 10 year old boy was found dead hanging from a tree in a park in Nagoya, Japan. More »

From Ningin: Ok, ok. It’s technically not a figure of Barack Obama. It’s called the Advanced African American Male fashion doll. It does, however, have a striking resemblance to the current president of the United States. More »

Arashi is the epitome of boy bands in Japan, for me personally. They are the ones that roped me in with Aiba Sugoroku, which is a board game with horrible things such as stocking heads, hot pants and ink portraits. This is why they were chosen to be the first artist of the week. More »

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From Girlybubble: Inspired by the Great Lady Gaga, hundreds of Japanese fans donned handmade costumes, original creations, and Japanese vs. Lady Gaga style mashups recently, in anticipation of the singer’s second show at the Yokohama Arena near Tokyo. Here’s a collection of some of the pictures taken from Tokyo Fashion. More »