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A keen fisherman from Tokyo (Masaki Suda) moves to a tight-knit community in Miyagi Prefecture during the COVID-19 pandemic in ¡°Sunset Sunrise.¡±
CULTURE / Film
Jan 21, 2025
¡®Sunset Sunrise¡¯: Rom-com finds pathos in peak pandemic setting
By Mark Schilling
Yoshiyuki Kishi¡¯s film delivers a deliciously uplifting story with humor and heart in a tight-knit community impacted by disasters.
Eugene Kangawa's Atelier iii is a space where visitors are invited to engage directly with the artist¡¯s evolving practice.
CULTURE / Art
Jan 18, 2025
Eugene Kangawa¡¯s art space embraces impermanence
By Erik Augustin Palm
The artist¡¯s Atelier iii studio resists spectacle and asks visitors to slow down and commit to being present.
From the mid-2000s onward, Ryuichi Sakamoto created a number of installation works, often in collaboration with Shiro Takatani, of multimedia art collective Dumb Type.
CULTURE / Art
Jan 17, 2025
A slow dive into ¡®a moment and an eternity¡¯ with Ryuichi Sakamoto
By James Hadfield
New exhibition ¡°Seeing Sound, Hearing Time¡± is the first comprehensive overview of the musician¡¯s installation work presented in Japan.
Filmmaker David Lynch at his Hollywood Hills home in Los Angeles in 2002. The painter turned avant-garde film artist, whose fame, influence and distinctively skewed worldview extended far beyond the movie screen, died on Thursday at 78.
CULTURE / Film
Jan 17, 2025
David Lynch, maker of florid and unnerving films, dies at 78
By J. Hoberman
A painter turned artist whose films included ¡°Eraserhead,¡± ¡°Blue Velvet¡± and ¡°Mulholland Drive,¡± Lynch also brought his visionary view to the small screen with ¡°Twin Peaks.¡±
A masterless samurai in 15th-century Japan (Yo Oizumi) leads a popular uprising against the authorities in ¡°Muromachi Outsiders.¡±
CULTURE / Film
Jan 16, 2025
¡®Muromachi Outsiders¡¯: Yo Oizumi commands attention in rebellion tale
By James Hadfield
The actor convincingly breaks the mold of his comedy persona to inhabit the role of a sword-wielding folk hero in Yu Irie¡¯s period epic.
Akutagawa Prize winners (from left) Jose Ando, author of "Dtopia" and Yui Suzuki, author of "Goethe wa Subete o Itta," and Naoki Prize winner Shin Iyohara, author of "Ai o Tsugu Umi."
CULTURE / Books
Jan 15, 2025
911±¬ÁÏÍø most prestigious literary awards go to a trio of contemporary voices
By Alyssa I. Smith
Jose Ando and Yui Suzuki take home Akutagawa honors, while Shin Iyohara nabs the Naoki Prize.
In season two of "Squid Game," protagonist Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) returns to put an end to the deadly competition.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / Wide Angle
Jan 12, 2025
The unnervingly timed return of ¡®Squid Game¡¯
By Erik Augustin Palm
The show¡¯s themes of wealth disparity and exploitation of power resonate far beyond South Korea, tapping into a universal vein of unease about the unstable systems we live under.
¡°The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic¡± centers on three teenage protagonists who are transported into a fantasy world where they must grapple with a foreign culture.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Jan 11, 2025
Isekai anime offers a key to understanding globalization
By Stevie Suan
The fantastical genre wherein characters are dropped into unlikely worlds ¡ª and sometimes bodies ¡ª can be read as an allegory for the structure of the contemporary anime industry.
On Dec. 31, rock duo B¡¯z appeared on NHK's year-end "Kohaku Uta Gassen" music extravaganza for the first time in a career spanning more than three decades.
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Jan 10, 2025
An explosive B¡¯z set on ¡®Kohaku¡¯ hints at a strategy to win over viewers
By Patrick St. Michel
Japan¡¯s best selling act delivered one of the biggest moments of the year-end music blowout and reinforced the importance of catering to a more middle-aged market.
NHK¡¯s latest taiga period drama, ¡°Unbound,¡± centers on Tsutaya Juzaburo (Ryusei Yokohama), a commoner who becomes a successful bookseller and publisher.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Jan 10, 2025
¡®Unbound¡¯ breaks NHK period drama tradition with a hero of the common folk
By Mark Schilling
Public broadcaster NHK marks its 100th anniversary by flipping the script on its long-running period drama series.
The film version of ¡°The Solitary Gourmet¡± is a directorial debut for Yutaka Matsushige, long known for his leading role as salaryman and gourmand Goro Inogashira.
CULTURE / Film
Jan 9, 2025
¡®The Solitary Gourmet¡¯: Palatable movie adaptation may leave you wanting more
By James Hadfield
Lead actor Yutaka Matsushige¡¯s film directing debut offers ambient pleasure for fans of the long-running TV series.
Hisao Kurozumi (left) and Kazuki Nagaya (the film¡¯s director) play brothers with a strained relationship in ¡°Mending Cracks.¡±
CULTURE / Film
Jan 9, 2025
¡®Mending Cracks¡¯: A muddled drama about brotherly discord
By Mark Schilling
Kazuki Nagaya¡¯s directorial debut has its charms, but doesn¡¯t offer enough substance to engage the audience.
Chinese buyer of Okinawa island to make visit in summer
Yanaha Island in Okinawa Prefecture as seen from a ferry.
911±¬ÁÏÍø firms weigh fallout from Trump tariff pledges
Economists, legal experts and business leaders concur that incoming U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to implement fresh tariffs ¡ª whether directly aimed at Japan or not ¡ª could hurt the country's export-reliant machinery and automobiles industries while shattering the global economy.
Cedar pollen is already in the air in Tokyo
Climate change and urbanization are believed to have contributed to the earliest ever observation of cedar pollen in Tokyo, on Jan. 8, an expert says.
More bird flu cases found in Japan; 1.44 million birds to be culled
Officials with the agriculture ministry hold a news conference in Nagoya on Friday following an outbreak of avian influenza in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, earlier this month.
Fuji TV loses more advertisers amid inquiry into host¡¯s behavior
Fuji TV is losing more advertisers following allegations about inappropriate behavior by a celebrity host and questions about its handling of the case.
Japan looks to learn from the past with bid to build Australian warships
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami frigate, of the class of the same name, is anchored at the MSDF's naval base in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in September 2022.
Amid rising world hunger, a Japan-inspired group in Kenya is making a big impact
Wawira Njiru, the founder of Food4Education, serves food during the opening of a new kitchen in Mombasa County, Kenya, in 2022. The organization started in 2012 by feeding 25 children out of a single kitchen. Now it feeds nearly half a million every day.
From Tokyo to Manhattan, Takuma Watanabe stirs up a stiff drink
It's taken Takuma Watanabe little time to establish himself as one of New York's hottest bartenders.
For tourists in search of seasonal sights, Yamagata makes its case
For some time away from Tokyo's suffocating urban sameness, Yamagata Prefecture is home to a soothing array of natural abundance.
A slow dive into ¡®a moment and an eternity¡¯ with Ryuichi Sakamoto
From the mid-2000s onward, Ryuichi Sakamoto created a number of installation works, often in collaboration with Shiro Takatani, of multimedia art collective Dumb Type.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a ¡°sense of urgency¡± when it comes to Japan¡¯s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. ¡°We have to make sure we are successful,¡± he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike¡¯s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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