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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
The producer of an upcoming Taiwanese film about the island’s first baseball team said he is confident it will resonate with audiences the world over. “I hope the audience looks at Taiwan’s history like they look at their life story,” Wei Te-sheng said. “No ...
U.S. television network CBS may have warned stars not to show too much skin on stage Sunday at the Grammys, but the music industry’s A-listers tested the limits in body-conscious, revealing gowns. Jennifer Lopez, whose plunging barely-there green Versace gown at the 2000 Grammys ...
A documentary about an elderly man who lost his home to the massive tsunami following the March 2011 earthquake and eventually succeeded in building a new one in the same neighborhood will open Feb. 16 in theaters across Japan. Directed by Kaoru Ikeya, 54, ...
A portrait by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani of his lover Jeanne Hebuterne went under the hammer in London on Wednesday for £26.9 million ($42.3 million), Christie’s auction house said. The final price for the 1919 portrait, “Jeanne Hebuterne (Wearing a Hat)” was well more ...
“Les Miserables” has grossed a record ¥4.2 billion in Japan since it hit movie theaters in December, the most ever for a musical, according to distributor Toho-Towa Co. The record had been held by the 2005 film “The Phantom of the Opera” based on ...
The Berlin International Film Festival will support a movie festival to be held in earthquake- and tsunami-hit Sendai in March, Dieter Kosslick, director of the world-renowned Berlinale, said. The local festival, named “Berlinale in Sendai,” is being organized by a group of the city’s ...
Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi revealed her love of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” books as she waxed lyrical about her favorite reads at Myanmar’s first international literary festival on Saturday. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who spent years under house arrest under Myanmar’s ...
Japan’s Noriyuki Hamada captured the bronze medal Wednesday in the Bocuse d’Or, becoming only the second non-European to reach the podium in the 26-year history of the world’s most prestigious culinary competition. The gold medal went to Thibaut Ruggeri of France and the silver ...
Torrents of water gush down the towering rocky mountain on the stage of Tokyo’s Imperial Theater as samurai warriors cross swords with their foes under heavy rain in a scene depicting the famous revenge of the Ako Roshi (47 Ronin). In other scenes, 66 ...
Japan’s top literature awards spanned the extremes of age this year by awarding 75-year-old Natsuko Kuroda the Akutagawa Prize for “ab Sango,” and 23-year-old Ryo Asai the Naoki Prize for “Nanimono,” along with Ryutaro Abe’s “Tohaku.” Kuroda is the oldest person to win the ...
More than a million Muslims gathered on the banks of a river in Bangladesh over the weekend to pray and listen to religious scholars at the start of the world’s second-largest annual Islamic congregation. The streets of Dhaka were largely deserted as devotees flocked ...
Rare footage from 1963 of singer Kyu Sakamoto, known worldwide for his smash hit “Sukiyaki,” has been discovered in the vault of broadcaster TBS in Yokohama. Shot during Sakamoto’s August 1963 trip to the United States and narrated by the singer, the footage shows ...