Global markets went berserk on Monday in one of the worst trading days in recent memory as fears of a slowdown in the U.S. economy helped drive declines in stock ...
Singapore-based 3D Investment Partners has offered to become a majority shareholder in Japanese film company Tohokushinsha and take it private, valuing the Japanese film company at $575M. Tohokushinsha dubs foreign ...
Tokyo-based Kino Films has struck a deal with Lionsgate and GK Films to distribute Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, in Japan. Lionsgate is releasing domestically, with Universal set to handle international markets, ...
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Saturday night wished former president Donald Trump a “speedy recovery” and denounced political violence. “We must stand firm against any form of violence that ...
A high-profile call by Japan’s biggest corporate lobby for legal changes to allow couples to keep separate surnames after marriage has raised hopes of reform to a system that has ...
As freshmen at New York University’s film school, some chums and I had an unusual greeting. “We live on rice gruel!” we would say if we saw one another around ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: A knife attack against a Japanese woman and her child triggers backlash against China’s online ultranationalists, Indonesia announces new tariffs on Chinese ...
The investigative office of the Paris Appeals Court has rejected a request by the lawyers of French Culture Minister Rachida Dati for an end to prosecution procedures related to the ...
A decade-long love story of two young men is the subject of Netflix‘s latest Asian series, Soul Mate. The drama stars Japanese actor Hayato Isomura and Korean singer-actor Ok Taec-yeon ...
Crunchyroll Senior Vice President of Global Commerce Mitchel Berger was in ebullient mood as he gave a talk on the growing global reach of anime at the Annecy International Animation ...