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The pleasure and pain of creativity are both powerfully on display in “Look Back,” a new anime film based on an autobiographical manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, best known for “Chainsaw Man.” The film is directed and adapted by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, who also did the character designs and reportedly drew over half the key animation frames himself. It’s dedication that paid off handsomely in this short yet
I live with my Russian wife in Yokohama. Every year, on Feb. 23, we used to celebrate Defender of the Fatherland Day by opening a bottle of wine. It may seem strange for a Japanese person like myself to be marking a Soviet-era Red Army commemoration but my wife's family once said to me: "Yu, you have great respect for your homeland. For you, the ‘fatherland’ is your family. So let's celebrate toge
Behind the global success of Japanese video games lies a delicate task: appealing to overseas players whose expectations on issues such as sexism are increasingly influencing the content of major titles. With the majority of sales for big games now outside Japan, everything from slang words to characters' costumes must be carefully considered for a global audience. It is a complex process that has
One of Japan's most popular comedians denied sexual assault allegations published in a prominent magazine on Wednesday, his talent agency said, adding it was considering legal action. There are "no facts whatsoever" in accusations published by weekly Shukan Bunshun against comedian and TV presenter Hitoshi Matsumoto, his talent agency said in a statement. The Bunshun report quoted two women as all
Will Japan ever see 'Oppenheimer' screened in its cinemas? Christopher Nolan's film about the creator of the atomic bomb, "Oppenheimer," was released in theaters worldwide this summer and received mostly strong reviews. However, distributors still have not announced whether the film will be shown in Japan's cinemas. | Evelyn Freja / The New York Times Three months since its worldwide release, Chri
A working group of the U.N. Human Rights Council is planning to look into sexual abuse claims against the late founder of Japan's top male talent agency Johnny & Associates, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The Working Group on Business and Human Rights is expected to arrive in Japan between late July and early August and conduct interviews in Tokyo and Osaka with former members of
Hollywood once ruled over the Japanese box office. In 1975, the smash success of “Jaws” gave non-Japanese films their first majority share of the Japanese market: 55.6%. And as more effects-driven films by directors such as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and more actioners featuring muscular superstars like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger filled local theaters, Hollywood’s dominan
Between China's 20th Communist Party Congress, that began Sunday, and the next one in 2027, Japan will undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War II in a race to deter Beijing from war in East Asia, according to Japanese government officials and security analysts. Japan identified China as its chief adversary in its 2019 defense white paper, worried that Beijing's flouting of international
Chiba – Japan’s major tech trade show CEATEC returned to an in-person format on Tuesday for the first time in three years, with firms seizing the chance to directly interact with visitors and show off their latest offerings. Over the past two years, the event was held solely online due to the pandemic, but this year saw the introduction of a hybrid format. Despite excitement over the return to an
Sept. 7-Oct. 30 This upcoming exhibition celebrating Japan's Meiji Era (1868-1912) aims to live up to its name by setting out to amaze even the most erudite of art and culture fans. One highly anticipated highlight is the jizai okimono display — a selection of 24 remarkably detailed and articulated small metal figures in the form of mythical creatures, insects and crustaceans. The University Art M
Five ballistic missiles launched by China's military during exercises around Taiwan on Thursday were believed to have landed inside Japan's exclusive economic zone for the first time, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said. The Defense Ministry said all five of the missiles that landed within Japan's EEZ — which extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from Japan's coast — had fallen into waters sou
Taipei – In the days leading up to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taiwan, there was a clear contrast between the perspective on the ground here and in Washington. In the island democracy, life carried on as usual. The media focused on domestic news. Taiwanese officials said little about the issue, save Premier Su Tseng-chang telling reporters that Taiwan “warmly welcomes”
What Shinzo Abe really thought The late prime minister’s speechwriter recounts the thought process behind the assassinated leader’s determination to ensure a better future for Japan Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 24, 2019. | DAVE SANDERS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Immediately after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down on Friday morning while stumping in the city of Nara, Japanese media outlets rose to the occasion and provided up-to-the-minute news on the shocking incident throughout the day. Yet a peculiarity remains. While much of the Western press has described the death of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister as an "assassination," all of
Singaporean Adeline Leng expected to start studying at a language school in Japan last April but is still not able to travel to the country due to its strict COVID-19 border controls. Leng, 26, began the process of applying 16 months ago and since then it has been one long, increasingly fraught wait. "When the timeline passed and we got to about August, after the (Tokyo) Olympics, and September, O
Twitter said governments around the world made requests to remove content from a record number of user accounts between January and June last year, with the most coming from Japan, in data to be released by the social media company on Tuesday. The platform said governments made 43,387 legal demands for the removal of content from 196,878 accounts in the six-month period, according to data in its l
Sapporo – Gaffe-prone Former Prime Minister Taro Aso has said that rice on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido "has become tastier thanks to (global) warming," a remark likely to raise eyebrows of climate campaigners. People often associate a warming climate with negative developments, but there is "something good," said the 81-year-old politician, who until recently had served as finance mini
The bike safety campaign that backfired Feminist group lodges complaint over Chiba police’s recruitment of avatar All the Chiba Prefectural Police wanted to do was promote bicycle safety. Instead, they found themselves in the middle of an online culture war. In an effort to connect with Japan’s youth, Chiba authorities launched a collaboration in July with VTuber (virtual YouTuber) talent agency V
A recent hunger strike by a French national near Tokyo’s National Stadium has rekindled controversy over Japan’s post-divorce parental authority system, drawing attention to his claim that his children have been "abducted" by his estranged Japanese wife. The story of Vincent Fichot, a long-term resident in Japan who says he hasn’t been able to see his two children since his wife abruptly disappear
With a final song and dance performed on a virtual stage, complete with the hashtag #GoodbyeCoco, a 3,501-year-old dragon child best known for her crude jokes and meme reviews “graduated” from Hololive. Twenty years ago, I could have never imagined I’d be writing that paragraph as the opener to a story. Kiryu Coco is a virtual YouTuber, otherwise known as a VTuber, who is acted by a real person an
LONDON – Late last year, a semi-retired British scientist co-authored a petition to Europe's medicines regulator. The petitioners made a bold demand: Halt COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials. Even bolder was their argument for doing so: They speculated, without providing evidence, that the vaccines could cause infertility in women. The document appeared on a German website on Dec.1. Scientists denoun
Mumbai – Three-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka said the sexist comments by Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori were "ignorant," but refrained from calling on him to resign on Saturday. Earlier this week, the 83-year-old Mori, a former prime minister, said that women talked for too long in meetings. He later retracted and apologized for the comments he had made during a meeting with the Japan Ol
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Separators are often added to benches in public spaces in Japan to prevent the homeless from lying down on them to sleep. | GETTY IMAGES In the early morning hours of Nov. 16, a 46-year-old man allegedly struck a 64-year-old woman sitting in a Tokyo bus shelter in the head with a bag of rocks, killing her. On Nov. 21, the man, accompanied by his mother, turned himself in to the police, who charged
The number of suicides in August increased by 15.4 percent to 1,854, with the number of women and children taking their own lives jumping from the same period last year. | BLOOMBERG The number of suicides rose in Japan in August due to more women and school-aged children taking their own lives — offering a first glimpse into the consequences of the mental health strain brought about by COVID-19 ar
Austin, Texas – Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" begins with a catch: "Tastes change, new genres emerge, the history of music keeps being rewritten." This year's list, released last week, marks the second time the iconic music magazine's canon has been revisited, recompiled and rewritten since its original publication in 2003. It seems a shame then that Rolling Stone’s musical
Nagoya – As an unexpectedly robust Black Lives Matter movement took hold in Japan throughout the month of June, many international residents found themselves participating in a march or demonstration in Japan for the first time. “Black Lives Matter resonates in Japan simply because a (mass) movement like that is something we don’t see here and it makes people uncomfortable,” says Wakako Fukuda, a
Osaka – Alfred Weinzierl is well-known to police in Osaka: A middle-aged rakish German wearing a puppet shark and an oversized chicken hat tends to stand out. Sometimes Weinzierl even sets Kingyo, his beloved shark hand puppet, on police officers he hasn’t encountered before. While this is done in jest, and to break the ice, Weinzierl’s bigger point is that “people deserve respect because of what
Over the past few months, Tokyo has been overwhelmed by a never-ending media frenzy over COVID-19. How long should people stay home? Will there be a vaccine? When and how should business activities be reopened? This pandemic has made Japan out of touch with the rest of the world and only focused on irrelevant or trivial matters. A typical example is “Who is better for Japan, Trump or Biden?” As ea
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