'The Power of the Dog,' 'Dune' and 'Drive My Car' triumph at BAFTA awards
Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's drama wins the award for best film not in the English language at the London event, raising hopes of taking home a prestigious Oscars' gong on March 28.
Isabella Bird: Revisiting her intrepid journeys trekking the wilds of Japan
Geographer Kiyonori Kanasaka's extensive knowledge and commentary enrich the works of the 19th-century explorer.
Glimpses of postwar Hayama through a father's eyes
"Hayama 1952-1953 Charles Junkerman,” a book of rare photographs, preserves the everyday lives of the seaside town's citizens in vivid color.
The Eurobeat boom, boom, boom, boom means the '90s are back
Dust off your best para para dance moves, the sound of hi-NRG Heisei has returned.
City pop: The soundtrack to Japan's boom years goes viral
Teruhiko Saigo, one of Showa Era's most popular singers, dies at 75
Sky-Hi: Taking up the fight for artistic freedom
Rap takes over Super Bowl halftime, balancing celebration and protest
Ado brings a flair for the dramatic to ‘Kyogen’
The Tokyo club scene's 'temple' may be gone, but the faith remains
‘Intimate Stranger’ is a psychological thriller for the pandemic age
Director Mayu Nakamura's background in documentary filmmaking played a part in making the feature, which explores the depths of desperation.
‘Tamaran Hill’: A playful literary journey to get lost in
'Wedding High’: Nuptial chaos delivers big laughs
With ‘Turning Red,’ a big red panda helps break a glass ceiling
‘The Last 10 Years’: Keep a hanky handy for this weepy romance
‘Intimate Stranger’: Asuka Kurosawa makes a triumphant return
‘Chronicle in the Ruins’: An intimate look at a family’s rise from the ashes
‘Eleven Winters of Discontent’: The nightmare that began after World War II
Sherzod Muminov's well-researched academic study identifies explanations for Joseph Stalin’s decision to intern half a million Japanese prisoners of war in Soviet work camps.
'Scattered All Over the Earth': Yoko Tawada's utopia rejects present-day conventions
'Vou: Visual Poetry Tokio 1958-1978' is a work of art, 20 years in the making
‘Woman Running in the Mountains’ carries on the literary legacy of Yuko Tsushima
‘Of Arcs and Circles’: Step into the fertile imagination of a garden expert
The dystopian society of ‘Monkey Man’ delivers a surreal sci-fi parable
'The Battle of Sekigahara' retraces Japan's historic samurai conflict
Evolving Japanese crafts find a home in the U.K.
Artisans are pushing boundaries in the U.K., where a growing popularity of Japanese designs and concepts is being driven in part by increased concerns over sustainability.
Teshikaga Extreme Cold Art Festival: ‘A place created by gods and artists’
Tsukioka Kogyo: The man who dedicated his art to saving noh
Japanese artistry brings Napoleon's legacy to life
Powerful auction veterans aim new company at Asian market
Kyotographie taps into the echoes of hardship
Hokusai exhibit featuring publicly unseen sketches to open in London
Ghibli's Suzuki honored for work in animation at Annie Awards
The international animated film society ASIFA-Hollywood presented Toshio Suzuki with this year's Winsor McCay Award.
Yusaku Maezawa to sell Basquiat work for estimated $70 million
Louis Armstrong museum to send letter thanking Japanese drama series
Ivan Reitman, director of ‘Ghostbusters,’ is dead at 75
Original 'Fight Club' ending restored in China after online backlash
Japan's Tsukino Tanaka wins second prize at Lausanne ballet competition
Thailand brings 'boys' love' back to Japan with homegrown dramas
Thai tourism officials hope the current popularity of the country's "boys' love" genre of TV shows will spur eventual tours to Thailand by fans.
‘The Mating Game’: NHK's 8K nature series reveals all
Bob Saget, comic who portrayed Danny Tanner on ‘Full House,’ dies at 65
‘Aggretsuko’ digs into toxic work culture and self-worth
New Year's TV sees us spoiled for choice
Fairy tale fantasies meet reality on ‘The Future Diary’ and ‘The Bachelor Japan’
Johnny's pop stars get pumped for 'Sasuke'
Theater Commons Tokyo rethinks the 'voices' of performing arts in the COVID era
The festival examines radically different ways of creating and experiencing theater in the context of the pandemic, while also challenging the very idea of what theater can be.
Saitama Gold Theater players take their final bow after 15 years
Kabuki actor and national treasure Nakamura Kichiemon dies at 77
Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim, whose work transformed musical theater, dead at 91
‘The Doctor’ diagnoses society’s afflictions
New opera ‘Yuzuru’ cautions against the dangers of capitalism
Rena Matsui tackles Shakespeare in an all-female 'Julius Caesar'
