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Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his attempt to topple the Italian government, leaving him weaker than ever and zapping the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from ...
Hatsudai has a lot going for it. This quiet low-rise residential neighborhood just minutes west of Shinjuku boasts a friendly traditional shōtengai (shopping street) and a lively annual Awa Odori dance festival. Now add to that a really outstanding restaurant. Anis opened in early ...
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI. For years, the charismatic young star of the kabuki world has never long been out of the ...
Reigning champion Kei Nishikori made quick work of Feliciano Lopez, walloping the Spaniard in a straight-sets victory Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rakuten Japan Open. The world No. 13 Nishikori needed little over an hour to put away Lopez, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 ...
Authorities in the Belgian municipality of Estaimpuis made their most famous resident, Gerard Depardieu, an honorary citizen on Saturday ahead of a housewarming barbecue the French actor hosted. “We are pleased that you have made Nechin your home,” municipal official Daniel Senesael said, referring ...
They are handsome, daring, patriotic and multilingual elite fighters who dodge bullets while remaining loyal to their women and families. Meet the new heroes of South Korean cinema — North Korean spies. Portrayed by Hollywood as merciless terrorists in films such as “White House ...
A documentary film criticizing Japan’s export of a nuclear power plant to Vietnam that has impacted a small village will be screened this weekend at the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival. For the 2012 film “Shinobiyoru Genpatsu” (“Encroaching Nuclear Power Plant”), the documentary writer Shinsuke ...
Rene Duignan is passionate about life — so much so that he made an award-winning film about it. Yet Duignan, 42, is not a professional filmmaker; he’s an Irish economist working for the European Union delegation to Japan. The documentary, titled “Saving 10,000 — ...
A 1958 film believed to be Japan’s oldest TV animation work has been found at a Nippon Television Network Corp. studio. The color cartoon, titled “Mogura no Abanchuru” (“Mole’s Adventure”), runs eight minutes and 53 seconds. It was discovered during production of a feature ...
Esther Williams, a championship swimmer and lustrous beauty who became one of the world’s most popular movie stars in the 1940s and ’50s by appearing in aquatic musicals featuring daredevil plunges from pedestals, trapezes and even a helicopter, died Thursday at her home in ...
“Like Father, Like Son,” directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, received the Prix du Jury at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival on Sunday. It was the first Japanese film to receive an award in the competition division since Naomi Kawase’s “The Mourning Forest,” which won ...
Producers announce that Daniel Radcliffe will take the lead role in the film adaption of crime reporter Jake Adelstein's memoirs about Japan's underworld.
Nobuteru Uchida hopes his film on Japan’s struggle to recover from the calamity of March 2011 will prompt dialogue and promote tolerance, since public opinion on the risks of low-level radiation remains divided. “I wanted to make a film that has a message — ...
Once a symbol of a burgeoning postwar counterculture, the “bosozoku” are fading. Gone are the days when gangs of bikers would zoom through neighborhoods with daredevil temerity. According to the latest National Police Agency report, the number of recognized bosozoku members nationwide, which peaked ...
Of all the films the late actress Isuzu Yamada starred in, none of them better symbolized the vicissitudes of her real life than the 1936 “Naniwa Ereji (Naniwa Elegy).” Yamada, who died last year at the age of 95, went through at least three ...
A documentary movie to remember Taylor Anderson, 24, an American woman who died when monster tsunami caused widespread devastation in the Tohoku region in March 2011, has been screened in Japan for the first time. Anderson met her fate in the city of Ishinomaki, ...