Japan has otaku/fan event insurance to cover oshikatsu expenses when events are cancelled

If you don’t want to travel if you can’t see your oshi, JCB understands.

Before we get to our main topic, let’s start with a quick linguistics refresher.

In Japanese, oshi literally means “support,” but in modern pop culture circles it’s taken on the meaning of a fan’s favorite character or performer, especially in the […] ...