Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Susan Boyle is making her big-screen acting debut in a Christmas-themed British period drama. The Scottish singer appears in “The Christmas Candle,” a story of angels and wishes set in an English village in the 1890s. Boyle’s role has not yet been disclosed. In ...
A movie theater in Tokyo will screen a movie with English narration and subtitles Tuesday in which 37 pupils, teachers and parents talk about their experience of the March 2011 quake-tsunami that destroyed Kadonowaki Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. The film, “Living Through ...
Virtuoso movie director Nobuhiko Obayashi has created a film that pays homage to Tohoku’s postdisaster recovery in an unusual collaboration with all-girl pop idol group AKB48. The short feature, lasting around an hour, serves as a promotional video for AKB48′s new single “So long!” ...
Film distributor Prenom-H Co. has gone bankrupt, affected by China’s dispute over the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Monday. The Tokyo-based company received Tokyo District Court approval for the start of its bankruptcy procedures on Feb. 21, ...
French actor Gerard Depardieu got a new permanent address in Russia — 1 Democracy St. — on Saturday, adding a final touch to his quest to get Russian citizenship. After receiving his Russian passport from President Vladimir Putin last month, Depardieu had it stamped ...
A documentary that recently began screening chronicles the experiences of Japanese communities hosting nuclear facilities and the high price paid by some of them because of the March 2011 Fukushima meltdown disaster, including farmers and fishermen unable to market their produce because of radioactive ...
A judge has spurned a prominent Colombian’s attempt to prevent the release of a feature film about the odyssey of the son who was born to her while she was a rebel hostage. The mother, Clara Rojas, had argued that allowing “Operation E” to ...
Nine films from Japan and abroad that explore the theme of capital punishment will be screened consecutively at a theater in Tokyo’s Shibuya district over a one-week period starting Saturday, accompanied by a series of talks. The movies to be shown at Eurospace for ...
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak said Friday that a new film about the late Steve Jobs is factually “wrong,” judging by a recently released clip of the movie. Wozniak, who quit Apple in 1987 after 12 years, said a scene depicted in the clip from ...
Japan’s imports of theater films have been plummeting, according to Tokyo Customs data collected on trade through Narita airport last year. This is because the number of theaters showing digital movies has been rising since the release of the three-dimensional U.S. hit “Avatar” in ...
Family and friends of filmmaker Nagisa Oshima bid farewell to the director Tuesday at his funeral in Tokyo, following his death last week at the age of 80. Oshima’s coffin, laid out at Tsukiji Honganji, was filled with origami cranes and other items with ...
A new Indian film looks at the sensitive topic of sexual harassment in the workplace at a time when Bollywood has come under fire for its portrayal of women, after a fatal gang rape shocked the nation. “Inkaar” (“Denial”), a Hindi movie combining crime ...
