Author: Jacques Quass de Vos The third wave of coffee washed over Japan like a rich, aromatic tsunami. Along with it came a new kind of cultural space. Not the kind of place where you would merely buy a cup of coffee to flip open your Mac and ask for the Wi-Fi password; no, Japanese…
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Author: Scarlett Cornelissen Japanese popular cultural goods and content have gained global prominence and influence over the past decades. Japanese animation films (anime) and video games were the first to develop an international following in the 1980s. Since then, the popularity of manga has also grown and it is now consumed on a significant scale…
Author: Maggie Coetzee The cosplay community in South Africa has existed for well over fifteen years, and may have started small, but saw a drastic climb during recent years as marked by South Africa becoming the first African country to participate in the World Cosplay Summit back in 2018, and then shortly thereafter in The…