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 ...
Former Toei producer Muneyuki Kim has launched K2 Pictures, which will work with major directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda and aim to create a new funding ecosystem for Japanese animated ...
TOKYO — Nippon Steel said Friday it has postponed the expected closing of its $14.1 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by three months after the U.S. Department of Justice requested ...
At the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine, Italy, Mitsuhiro Mihara’s Takano Tofu clinched the Golden Mulberry prize, the top honor at the festival’s audience awards. Family drama Takano Tofu follows ...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday refused to apologize to Japan after President Joe Biden, 81, called the U.S. ally “xenophobic.” “Think about it,” Biden said referencing why ...
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