Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata in 2003, is a popular manga and anime series that follows a high school student who gains the power to kill anyone whose name he writes in a special notebook.

The Japan national baseball team has won two World Baseball Classic championships and has been a dominant force in international baseball.

Japan has a fascination with mascots, and there are thousands of them representing everything from cities to prisons.