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 ...

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, ...

On the afternoon of the 7th, four men and women in their 20s and 30s sat around a table playing mahjong at a board game cafe ...

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 ...

Since the birth of mahjong in Qing dynasty (1644-1912) China, different versions of the game have developed around the world. The basic principles remain the same for the most part, but each version ...

A mahjong museum in a prefecture near Tokyo has decided to return to China a huge collection of mahjong sets, including one used by the last Chinese emperor, Puyi, the World Mahjong Organisation (WMO) ...