Product managers play a critical role in a company. Customers experience the company's culture through its products—and product managers shape that experience through their behaviors and decisions.

In Japanese culture, people share a strong respect for all occupations and the workers who fill them. So much so that they even have a unique term to describe a hard worker - "Hatarakimono".

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Akiko Katayama covers Japanese food and culture. The number of foreign visitors to Japan hit another record high in 2025, ...

The country’s aesthetics and inventions have spread far. It still remains a singular place. To accompany one of this issue’s stories, T invited three artists to make mascots inspired by The New York ...

Otaku, people for whom hero worship is a way of life, have changed everyone’s relationship to the culture. By Nick Haramis ON ANY GIVEN night, the neon-lit streets of Akihabara, an entertainment ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at what makes people feel proud of their country. We asked an open-ended question allowing people in 25 countries to share, in their own words, what makes them ...

Most people picture sushi, ramen, or tempura when they think about Japanese food. And honestly, that makes sense - those are the dishes that traveled the world, landed on menus everywhere, and became ...