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

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

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

The Oscar winner has witnessed the digital revolution in visual effects from its genesis, and worked on numerous milestones in VFX for film and television.

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 ...

He’s got great innovation, he pushes his teams to the limit and gets the best out of people.” Japan: Yoshitaka Yazaki, Jone Naikabula, Dylan Riley, Nicholas McCurran, Malo Tuitama, Harumichi Tatekawa ...

The Ainu are indigenous people living mainly in northern Japan. They were recognized as such in 2019. Besher says this served ...