Nagoya University professor Akira Utsugi, center, is seen with his children in this photo provided by the individual. TOKYO -- Introducing children to not just English but other languages from a young ...

ONE OK ROCK: DETOX In Cinemas will premiere in Japan next month, and captures the band performing in front of 70,000 fans at Yokohama’s Nissan Stadium. Premiering in the band’s native Japan on April ...

The director and ex-Japanese Red Army militant discusses his new film Escape, about the anarchist fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, the frustrations of radical film-making and progressive politics Last ...

We’ve seen a lot of things in Japan, but one thing we haven’t seen is a mini cinema inside an airport. That all changed on 1 October, though, when the Faminchu Theatre opened inside Okinawa’s Naha ...

It was a week of highs and lows for Japanese cinema as nominations for the Japan Academy Film Prize and the Oscars were announced Monday and Thursday, respectively. For the Japan Academy Film Prize — ...

For the past decade, Aki-no has been one of the capital’s most eagerly anticipated cultural events; this year, it will present works from celebrated auteurs as well as rising talents. Whether you ...

The Korean film industry has turned to the proven savior of Japanese animation since the start of the year to offset the prolonged slump of domestic productions. The box office in 2025 remained ...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle is a tremendous achievement that required an unfathomable amount of work and skill from the team at Japanese anime studio Ufotable. Not only was ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, a veteran Japanese actor best known for films such as Ran, High and Low and Harakiri, died on Saturday at the age of 92. His collaborations with some of the greatest directors in ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, an actor rivaled only by Toshiro Mifune as the best-known star of 20th-century Japanese cinema, died Nov. 8. He was 92. The cause was pneumonia, according to a statement from ...

Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, told U.S. President Donald Trump at their meeting in Tokyo earlier this week that Japan would find it difficult to ban LNG imports from Russia, ...