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Patrick Stewart, Shakespearean actor turned ‘Star Trek’...
The popular actor married three times and had two children. He died at 86 at his...
A charismatic outsider is reborn in ‘Ryuji’
Nobuo Mizuta sits down with The Japan Times to talk about the genesis of his rem...
Is the viral book rave real? We go to the second event ...
The Jucy Book Rave, which went viral for the unusual choice of reading place in ...
Japan has mastered the red carpet. Almost.
Japan's red carpets have glamour down to a science. But in the pursuit of perfec...
Festival de Frue offers an antidote to Japan’s samey mu...
The small-scale music festival has carved out its own identity without relying o...
Manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, creator of ‘Ashita no Joe,’...
Born in Tokyo in 1939, Chiba was the first manga artist to receive the Order of ...
Not so cozy? Japanese bookstore fiction gets real.
Translated Japanese fiction is obsessed with quiet stories taking place in books...
‘The Potentials’ unpacks the dilemmas of a manga assist...
Shoichi Morimoto and Takuma Sato's "The Potentials" is an engaging tale about ar...
‘Vanishing Japan’ asks what is lost when buildings fall
Naomi Pollock's "Vanishing Japan" is a beautiful record of demolished architectu...
Takashi Miike pushes the envelope with ‘Bad Lieutenant:...
Veteran director Takashi Miike reflects on his first major international coprodu...
Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami dies at 74
Murakami's works, which explored sex, violence, and youth culture, were translat...
Japanese films at TIFF feature melodrama, monsters and ...
The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival will showcase Japanese cinema from go...
‘Umamusume’ concert cancellation highlights visa hurdle...
The canceled concerts underscore the visa challenges facing Japanese performers ...
An estranged mother and daughter face the music in ‘Ech...
Despite some perplexing plot holes, Ryutaro Nakagawa's "Echoes of Motherhood" is...
‘Two Cigarettes, Three Nights’ explores messy emotions ...
The filmmaker talks about intimacy, moral ambiguity and the art of portraying fl...
From Harvard to Tokyo screens, one actor takes the leap
For Canadian American actor Meisha Brooks, acting in Tokyo was a dream she just ...
