Lee Sang-il's moving if overlong Toho release 'Kokuho' represents Japan in the 2026 Best International Feature Oscar race.

On the eve of the Japan-US summit, Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akazawa Ryosei took visiting US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to a kabuki theater in central Tokyo. Shortly after ...

Backstage melodrama meets succession saga in Sang-il Lee's feature, which is toplined by Ryo Yoshizawa and Ryusei Yokohama and features a key supporting performance by Ken Watanabe. By Sheri Linden ...

As part of Variety’s Screening Series, “Kokuho” production designer Yohei Taneda and producer Chieko Murata joined Variety’s co-editor-in-chief Cynthia Littleton for a candid conversation about the ...

During his interview with Sponichi, he expressed his respect and affection for V, saying, “I aim to be the dynamite of the kabuki world, and I am inspired by and praise V’s expressiveness. I learn a ...

TOKYO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party have effectively agreed to form a coalition government, public broadcaster NHK said on Monday, citing a source ...

TOKYO :Toyota Motor may announce plans next week to import vehicles manufactured in the United States to Japan during U.S. President Trump's three-day visit to the country starting on Monday, public ...

Katsuji Ebisawa, the former president of public broadcaster NHK, died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo on Sunday. He was 91. Ebisawa joined NHK as a reporter in 1957. He promoted high-definition ...

The Tokyo International Film Festival‘s TIFF Lounge series of talks and masterclasses featured a conversation between Yamada Yoji, director of the festival Centerpiece “Tokyo Taxi”, and Lee Sang-il, ...

A survey found that about 80 percent of whooping cough patients in Japan were infected with an antibiotic-resistant strain of the disease. NHK has obtained the results of the survey. This comes amid a ...