The most popular board game in Japan is essentially invisible. It can be found everywhere—in hotel basements, in the backs of offices, even around the corner from your local train station—yet it ...

TOKYO (Japan News) -- Mahjong once had a reputation for being a "pastime for adults" and a form of gambling, but the tile-based game is now growing in popularity among junior high and high school ...

In Dragon Ball, probably the most famous action manga of all time, the characters fighting those deadly-serious battles have names like Vegeta, Trunks, Freeza and Kiwi. There’s no deep meaning behind ...

Mahjong is becoming popular as private education for children in Japan. Once strongly associated with 'gambling,' mahjong is now gaining attention among Japanese mothers as a new educational tool, ...

Japanese riichi mahjong players following the game’s highest echelons were shocked to see a pretty peculiar sponsorship pop up for this year, as Final Fantasy 14 was recently unveiled as a major ...

As many as 100 "Kenko [healthy] Mahjong" parlours have opened across Japan, with most customers over the age of 60. The game, whose roots are believed to lie with as far back as 500BC with Confucius, ...