Based in Scotland, Finn has been writing about Japanese pop culture for nine years now. He is also a gamer, hiker, and proud vegan. His passion is bringing news straight from Japan to you, in English, ...

If you’re starting to tire of seeing Line’s characters all over the place here in Japan, I have some bad news for you. Line is teaming up with fashion retailer Uniqlo to offer Line Character branded t ...

Line—the messaging app that is dominant in its home market of Japan and also a hit in Indonesia, Taiwan, and Thailand—is making a home for itself in New York. It launched a Times Square flagship store ...

South Koreans have recently been in a frenzy over characters created by two rival mobile messenger apps -- whether it is Line’s blank-faced bear named Brown or Kakao’s Muzi, who looks like a rabbit ...

Netflix will turn a cast of characters made popular by Japanese messaging app into an original animated series. The streamer is working with Line Friends, the character brand that started as Brown & ...