I recently watched Only Yesterday at the Cornell Cinema (highly recommend it!) and the show really got me thinking about the role of rural settings in Japanese popular culture. Note that I didn’t just ...

A new game set to release on Steam and the Nintendo Switch is taking the popular farming sim genre into a rural Japan setting, inspired by the countryside of the island nation. The modern farming sim ...

I’m a rather big fan of Apple Arcade, and I’ve had no issue bringing up some of the best Apple Arcade games on a regular basis. With that in mind, the Arcade has recently been updated with some new ...

When Atsushi Maeda talks about Rural, he doesn't use the language of festivals. He talks about zones: sonic, emotional, mental. Places you didn't know existed until the music took you there. "I would ...