Tag: Japan

Japanese singer and actress Miho Nakayama was found dead at her home in Tokyo on Friday. Born in Saku, Japan, Nakayama was known for her lead roles in Love Letter ...

Japan loves its unusual ice cream flavors. It’s home to exotic yet allegedly tasty varieties such as octopus, raw horsemeat, garlic, shark fin, and cow tongue. It’s the stuff of ...

The Sword of Gryffindor from the Harry Potter series, also known as The Godric Gryffindor Sword, has been deemed illegal in Japan.  That’s a sentence I never imagined writing but ...

Contemporary geopolitics is defined by two concepts: strategic competition and economic security. The Biden administration’s National Security Strategy began with the premise—inherited from Donald Trump’s first term as U.S. president ...

Disney+ unveiled its expansion into Japanese unscripted content with Traveling with Snow Man (working title), alongside its launch of new Japanese originals including BULLET/BULLET and CAT’S EYE. Additionally, Disney+ confirmed ...

Doubts over sustained U.S. support for Ukraine long predated Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, and they have raised concerns over Kyiv’s ability to sustain its defense against Moscow’s ...

The Japanese and Italian film industries are set to enter a new era of collaborations, after the Japan–Italy Film Co-production Agreement officially came into effect on August 9. At the ...

Japan’s Mount Fuji is one of the most iconic natural formations on Earth. It’s a UNESCO world heritage site that draws millions of tourists a year. One of its defining ...

A stunning electoral defeat for Japan’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party has ushered in a new era of instability just at a time when the world needed it least. In an ...

Earlier this year, allies and LGBTQ+ community members called for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan—the only member of the Group of Seven nations without any form of legally ...