Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Longstanding Japanese lifestyle magazines Brutus and Popeye have ...

Popeye wants to have a backyard barbecue with Olive Oyl, but is continually interrupted by a scheming Brutus, a hungry Wimpy and a crying Sweet Pea. Popeye, Olive and Wimpy end up on the moon with ...

Brutus swindles Olive Oyl out of her game show winnings with a worthless oil well. It's up to Popeye to grease the path towards a happy ending. Popeye and Olive stop by Brutus's Garage after running ...

From Ginza to a global English debut, the ‘City Boy’ remains an analog icon with an eighty-year reign over Tokyo’s newsstands. Since Kinosuke Iwahori and Tatsuo Shimizu founded Magazine House in 1945, ...

Popeye: Rush for Spinach has Popeye throwing the gauntlet in a series of races on different vehicles, trying to defeat the fierce opposition presented by other popular characters, such as Olive Oyl, ...