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 ...

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 ...

OSAKA, Japan, Nov. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Midosuji Runway 2025" event was held on Osaka's main street, Midosuji, on Monday, November 3, a national holiday, attracting 200,000 people along the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. James is lovin’ being back in Japan. The exuberantly geeky American mascot of McDonald’s Japan’s latest ad campaign oohs and aahs over fireworks. His smile beams from his cardboard cutouts outside ...