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Canadian writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Li...
The Canadian won for her "bold and inventive oeuvre" that "has created new for...
Anime is winning over a new generation of fans
Anime viewing is surging among younger audiences, with 79% of teen fans surveyed...
Adrian Bianco championed Japan’s underground culture
The Sabukaru founder, who died at 40 in August, connected underground culture an...
What to know before the 39th Tokyo International Film F...
The Tokyo International Film Festival is back for its 39th edition, offering mov...
Elvis comes back as a ghost in a noh theater play
Theater Nohgaku is translating the traditional art form to English with original...
From Elvis to Oppenheimer, global ghosts sing noh on th...
Theater Nohgaku is translating the traditional art form to English with original...
‘The Ozu Diaries’: An engaging look at the man behind t...
Daniel Raims' "The Ozu Diaries" is a stirringly human portrait of a titan of Jap...
A Finnish metal band riffs on dark fantasy manga ‘Berserk’
Finland-based metal band Beast in Black has found a well of inspiration in Kenta...
How Samurai Culture Shaped Aichi’s Fermented Food Tradi...
The Strategic Soul of Aichi Aichi’s soul is not found so much in grand sights, ...
Mrs. Green Apple doesn’t want to play by ‘the rules’
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‘F(r)iction’: A play within a film gets meta and messy
Though not without its flaws, Yuri Takei's film about life imitating art imitati...
In Maebashi, the city-making is the art
The inaugural art festival is the cherry on top of the town's decade-long revita...
Poetry, history and performance entwine in Daisydoze’s ...
Since 2018, Daisydoze has been creating site-specific theater productions that e...
After ‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi,’ ‘Mitani’ tells a differen...
The film moves beyond sushi's polished international image to explore the man, p...
From FX trading to plant people, fall anime gets weird
Our critic sifts through 60-plus series to spotlight five unconventional newcome...
Smile-Up’s president announces he will step down
Masayuki Yamada, Smile-Up's chief compliance officer, will succeed Noriyuki Higa...
