There’s a lot to be learned from living with the Never-Ending Man. That’s Hayao Miyazaki, the renowned director of animated films such as “Spirited Away” ...

In publishing a composite image of a socially-distanced theater crowd, the hall painted a bleak image of the future of stage in Japan.

Video games Final Fantasy VII Remake and Animal Crossing: New Horizons have engaging storylines, graphics that are worthy of Hollywood and now — a captive ...

With the news that this year’s Fuji Rock Festival would be postponed until 2021, summer 2020 became the season of no music in Japan.Organizer Smash ...

With all the news about Hana Kimura focusing on her death, I wanted to write about her life.

Now is the time to delve deeper into the history of racism in the U.S.

Shinzo Abe has been with us for so long now, it’s easy to forget that there was a time when Japan’s premiership seemed to rotate ...

Film production in Japan shut down in early April as part of the response to the outbreak of COVID-19, and as weeks passed with no ...

As American protesters took to the streets to mourn the death of George Floyd, they found an unexpected ally: K-pop fans.Floyd died May 25 after ...

Popular South Korean band BTS donated $1 million to Black Lives Matter (BLM) in support of U.S. protests against police brutality, its music label, Big ...

In smooth, heady prose, Antony Dapiran shows what he calls “a fight for the very soul of Hong Kong.”

“Weird” and “quirky” are adjectives readily bandied about when reviewing Japanese literature. So what happens when something truly bizarre comes along?

Smash Japan announced today that the 2020 edition of Fuji Rock Festival will be postponed due to ongoing concerns regarding COVID-19.The summer music festival, which ...

On his formidable debut album, “Passport & Garcon,” South Korea-born rapper Moment Joon lays claim to his present home in suburban Osaka with unusual specificity.

By taking a key arts festival online, Satoshi Miyagi is finding ways to ensure that theater survives the pandemic.

The four-piece band marks 10 years of bucking expectations and musical risk-taking.

Bullying is an evergreen theme of Japanese films centered on teens, with the focus typically on the victims.But in “Forgiven Children,” Eisuke Naito’s clear-eyed, hard-hitting ...

Even in the age of COVID-19, the show must go on, and go on it will.Theater lovers suffering from withdrawal symptoms as a result of ...

Manga artist George Akiyama, known as the author of the "Haguregumo" manga series, died on May 12, major publisher Shogakukan Inc. announced Monday. He was ...

Mayu Watanabe, a former member of the popular Japanese all-girl idol group AKB48, has retired from the entertainment industry due to health reasons, her agency ...