Growing up beside Japan's huge animation industry, a music scene based on creating and performing the theme tunes and hit songs of popular anime works ...

Movie and director prizes for "Nomadland" increased the profile of the film ahead of nominations in March for the Oscars.

Like his Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, "The Sympathizer,” Viet Thanh Nguyen's new novel, "The Committed,” hinges on questions about individual and collective identity and memory.

Author Yu Miri based her prize-winning novel in part on the memory of the major natural disaster that struck northeastern Japan 10 years ago and ...

The stage production of the 2003 Oscar-winning film will have its world premiere at Tokyo's Imperial Theater in February 2022.

Lady Gaga has offered half a million dollars for the safe return of her two pet dogs, saying her "heart is sick" after they were ...

The 'Under the Turquoise Sky' director mixes realism, fantasy and comedy in his visually stirring feature debut about a Japanese man who goes on a ...

Guitarist Azusa Suga based part of the sound for the Tokyo rock band's new album “Ethernity” on American suburbia and pop culture from the 1990s.

Yukiko Sode’s insightful drama about Japan’s ruling class and the masses stars Kiko Mizuhara and Mugi Kadowaki as women who find common ground despite their ...

Osaka record store owners Eiji Taniguchi and Norio Sato have unearthed some musical treasures from 1989-96 for this bright and buoyant compilation.

Poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, whose City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco became a West Coast literary haven for Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac ...

Former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are liberal icons, vacationing friends and rhapsodists about the dreams and travails of everyday Americans.Now they are also ...

Elizabeth Miki Brina’s memoir reveals how country and culture are connected to identity by weaving her narrative with the history of Okinawa.

Part memoir, travelogue, ethnography and cookbook, “Water, Wood, and Wild Things” explores the intricate connections of new and old in a town in balance.

In recent years, Japanese literature has earned a reputation abroad for its edgy, socially-conscious fiction, which translator Stephen Snyder, 63, has had a hand in ...

With Hollywood largely shut down because of the virus, stars are finding other ways to stay in the limelight.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce from rapper Kanye West after almost seven years of marriage, her publicist said Friday.The mega-celebrity couple's ...

Director Miwa Nishikawa’s latest film stars Koji Yakusho as a hardened ex-con trying to restart his life after spending 13 years behind bars.

Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke IV takes on the role of Suginoichi, the cunning antihero of Hisashi Inoue's play about social oppression.

Takuya Misawa’s stylish and enigmatic murder mystery centers on a quartet of friends thrown into disarray after a sudden death in their town.