Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) took the world of cinema by storm with his 1997 masterpiece House. A campy, ...

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Top of our wish list is Ruan Hoffmann’s Veti-Vert candle for L’Objet, which features a surrealist mask for a lid and hangs ..

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The celebrated writer was giving a talk on exiled writers and asylum in August 2022 when the suspect, Hadi Matar, allegedly attacked him with a knife, stabbing his left hand, neck and face. That last ...

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In her day job, the young Japanese woman is one of the seven members of the popular K-pop group Billlie. “I want to be a bridge between Japan and South Korea,” Tsuki said. Her radio program ...

Miike Takashi and producer Misako Saka on women in Japanese film industry, 'cheap' horror budgets and not being 'conscious' of audiences.

Unlike its neighbour South Korea, Japan has not had a vociferous #MeToo movement. Is that now changing? In 2024, a newspaper reported that Mr Masahiro Nakai, a boy band star turned television ...

At the top of the agenda is military cooperation and foreign investment. President Donald Trump is meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in a high-stakes visit for a key ally that ...

Top sushi chefs are cooking right in their patrons’ own accommodations for around 30,000 yen ($195) per person, and the service has become popular in one of Japan’s most popular tourist sites ...