Telling the story of a small, subsistence farming mountain community whose few remaining members keep drifting away to nearby ...

The Japan National Tourism Organisation reports that, this year, the country’s tourism experienced remarkable expansion.

Shinnosuke Matsui is an associate professor at the University of Miyazaki’s Center for Language and Cultural Studies. From ...

For the people I spoke to, retirement is understood as an opportunity to live a life for themselves, leading to a journey of ...

The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's Hokkaido.

The charismatic members of the four-piece group have had a busy year between attention-grabbing Coachella performances, a new album and a world tour.

Worse was admitting that I couldn’t get into it. “You’re Japanese. What’s so hard about getting into anime?” people would say ...

Hung popularized comedy-martial arts flicks, created the horror-kung fu genre and broke ground as an East Asian lead in the ...

The village of Ichinono is emblematic of Japan's demographic woes as marriages and births continue to decline.

With accents on Chinese directors, Japan’s upcoming talent and a women’s section, the Tokyo Film Festival can again claim to ...

Stories in anime can take place anywhere from fantasy worlds to the far reaches of space and this includes different time ...

The upper house of parliament, currently controlled by the LDP-led coalition, separately picks a prime minister, but the lower house’s decision takes precedence if the two bodies choose different ...