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Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 29, 2010

'The Lovely Bones'

Director Peter Jackson's latest, "The Lovely Bones," has been out in the United States for a while now, and the critics have been pretty merciless. It relies too much on special effects, it lacks key elements of the novel it's based on (Alice Sebold's best seller), some of the performances fail to connect...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 2, 2023

War-themed video game fuels wave of Ukraine conflict misinformation

Footage from Arma 3, often marked 'live' or 'breaking news,' has been used repeatedly in recent months in fake videos about the Russian offensive.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 8, 2022

‘Fragments of the Last Will’: You’ll need tissues for this WWII tearjerker

Takahisa Zeze's period drama about the true-life story of a Japanese soldier's fight for survival in a Soviet camp aims for the heart.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 1, 2022

Review: Is the new Ghibli Park worth all the hype?

The new theme park in Aichi Prefecture signals a change of direction for the legendary animation studio as it prepares for the next phase of Hayao Miyazaki's legacy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Oct 28, 2022

Dinosaurs to run amok in virtual Shibuya

Held from Oct. 26 to 31, this year’s Virtual Shibuya Halloween Fes will be the third installment of a six-day-long digital celebration in which people will create avatars and log into a re-creation of Shibuya to virtually experience Halloween. There will be live shows, fun games and exciting events...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 29, 2022

‘Tatami Time Machine Blues’: Kyoto slackers return for summer fun

Anime director Shingo Natsume seamlessly takes up the mantel to revisit the characters from 'The Tatami Galaxy' for new hijinks and a jaunt through time to retrieve a broken remote control.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, dies at 96

Her reign took Britain from the age of steam to the era of the smartphone, and she oversaw the largely peaceful breakup of an empire that once spanned the globe.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 29, 2022

AI’s next big thing is ‘fake’ data

Strange as it may sound, the growth of fake data is a step in the right direction, and not just because it avoids using people's personal data.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 10, 2022

‘What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?’: Satoshi Miki’s inverted monster movie bites off more than it can chew

Satoshi Miki's disaster film about what happens after a monster attack sounds good on paper, but it's an almighty mess.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 11, 2021

‘Parasite in Love’: Pulpy drama has young love on the brain

Kensaku Kakimoto's moody romance has an interesting premise about the relationship between love and mental illness, but it doesn't quite settle on the right tone.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 17, 2021

‘Culture Gate’ brings top-flight artworks to Japan’s airports

Dozens of works are now on display in terminal buildings across Japan as part of a major media arts exhibition split between seven airports and one international cruise port.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 8, 2021

Sex, murder and a getaway car: ‘Ride or Die’ stars go on the trip of a lifetime

Kiko Mizuhara and Honami Sato discuss the challenges of bringing Ching Nakamura's harrowing, sexually explicit manga to the screen in a provocative new Netflix movie.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 25, 2021

‘The Blue Danube’: Finding levity in the drudgery of war

Akira Ikeda's absurdist drama about two towns locked in an interminable war finds humor in tragedy and boredom.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 5, 2020

NPO Animator Supporters seeks to ensure anime talent get their fair share

After seeing his friends struggle in the anime industry, founder Jun Sugawara opened a dorm for rookie animators and started crowdfunding projects to provide fair wages.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 20, 2020

‘Crazy Samurai Musashi’: One-cut carnage is bloody exhausting

Yuji Shimomura's “Crazy Samurai Musashi” boasts a 77-minute continuous shot in which Tak Sakaguchi slashes his way through nearly 600 adversaries.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 22, 2020

Daiki Tsuneta: From the top of the charts to the great unknown

King Gnu frontman, Daiki Tsuneta, heads for further glory as he pushes forward with his side project, Millennium Parade.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 5, 2019

'My Girlfriend is a Serial Killer': A rom-com slasher for killing time

In this adapation of the lurid manga series 'Peephole,' Yosuke Sugino plays a suicidal shut-in who falls for his murderous neighbor.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 14, 2019

Japan's decade of 'closed country' cinema

As Japanese box office figures hit record highs in the 2010s, the country's film industry became increasingly insular
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 10, 2019

Perfume goes back to dance basics ahead of Coachella debut

Perfume keeps finding new opportunities more than 15 years into its career. This spring, the electro-pop trio embarks on its latest international tour, with stops in Asia and North America, but the real development comes at the very end of that jaunt when the group plays the Coachella Valley Music and...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 17, 2018

Live-action Pokemon trailer reaffirms Pikachu's enduring popularity

Ever since the original release of the “Pokemon” games for the Nintendo Game Boy back in 1996, the series’ central character — the electric, yellow rodent Pikachu — has found a permanent place in the world’s pop-culture zeitgeist. Pikachu has since shown up everywhere, including on countless...
JAPAN / History / Defining the Heisei Era
Sep 29, 2018

Defining the Heisei Era: When Japanese games went global

The Japan Times presents the fifth installment of a monthly 12-part series that looks back at the leading issues of the past three decades.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 18, 2018

Japan's bears are widely vilified and little understood

On Aug. 6, the BBC aired a story about four Ussuri brown bears being successfully transported from a museum in Hokkaido to a wildlife park in England. In the story, a British organization called Wild Welfare said it had become "concerned" about the animals' living situation at the Ainu Museum, where...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 20, 2018

'The Cat in Their Arms': Forget the idol-pop plot points and stick with the pets

You probably know the type: lonely, maybe even a little antisocial and more comfortable talking to cats than people.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2018

Airbus urges EU to let Britain stay in Galileo space project despite Brexit as U.K. firms face shutout

The chief executive of aerospace firm Airbus said Britain should not be frozen out of the European Union's Galileo space program after Brexit, calling on both sides to find a long-term solution in the interest of security.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 31, 2018

'Manhunt': Action maestro John Woo drops the baton

'Manhunt' has got the white doves, gratuitous slo-mo and operatic gunplay that fans of Woo's earlier films would expect, but the whole thing is as slackly executed as an 'Expendables' movie.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 23, 2017

'Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?': Will Japan fall in love with another pair of animated teens?

Last summer, "Your Name.," Makoto Shinkai's anime about gender-swapping high school lovers, began its triumphant march into the box-office record books. Not surprisingly, this summer has seen the arrival of more teen romances, but "Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?" stands out...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 18, 2017

A bite of the virtual reality sandwich

What happens when you take the Nazi zombies, coin collecting, cuddly creatures, xenomorphs, etc., out of video games and you just wander around virtual reality?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 31, 2017

'Logan' director takes Wolverine character in unexpected new direction

There's a scene in "Logan" — the latest addition to the "X-Men" franchise — where an aged, ailing Professor X (Patrick Stewart) exhorts Logan, aka Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), to open his mind to the possibility of a normal human existence, with a family to love and care for.
EDITORIALS
May 22, 2017

Final curtain call for 'The Greatest Show on Earth'

Circuses are made from the stuff of dreams, and one that lasted 146 years has come to an end.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 19, 2017

Eco-blockbuster 'Deepwater Horizon' bypasses a bigger issue

With "Deepwater Horizon," Hollywood attempts the difficult maneuver of having its cake and eating it too. It's certainly possible to make a rabble-rousing liberal issue movie, and it's even easier to make any sort of film that involves lots of CGI explosions, but it's rare that a filmmaker gets the chance...
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Police arrest man after body of ex-girlfriend found under his home
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Dollar’s decline is fueling dislocations across Asian currencies
A worker counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022.
Worker shortage forcing home care providers to turn away clients, survey finds
A survey by a labor union of home care business operators and care managers found that nearly 90% of facility managers had turned down service requests at least once during the past year, citing insufficient staffing.
Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Plug and Play wants to help Japanese startups go global
Phillip Vincent (right), Japan CEO of Plug and Play, and Ma Jingqian, head of ventures, at Plug and Play's Tokyo office, last month
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.
Want to see the future at the Osaka Expo? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
By Hanako Lowry

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