In the rest of the world — where Korean restaurants, music and film have transformed popular culture — the discovery of ...

The country’s aesthetics and inventions have spread far. It still remains a singular place.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- "Butter," the cult Japanese bestseller by Asako Yuzuki inspired by the real-life case of a ...

The undersigned Japan-based organizations are writing to call on the Japanese government to protect the International ...

Japanese novelist Asako Yuzuki was one of the panellists at the recently concluded Alliance Literary Festival in Bengaluru.

Huge numbers of people have attempted to pre-order Switch 2 in Japan, whom Nintendo has admitted it won't be able to cater to ...

Annecy 2025's slate includes an animated Stranger Things series, Zootopia 2 and Genndy Tartakovsky's Fixed, among others.

Directed by veteran filmmaker Shinji Higuchi and starring singer-actor Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Bullet Train Explosion is the ...

ChatGPT's new feature gave its users the tools to create memes and photographs in the Studio Ghibli style, the Japanese ...

LONDON -- English translations of Japanese novels are becoming best sellers in Britain. Asako Yuzuki's "Butter" has sold 280,000 copies, surpassing the sales of the original in Japan. Japanese fiction ...

Japanese-Arabic translator Rana Seif feels driven to bring contemporary Japanese novels by women writers to readers in the Middle East, saying that the problems women face are similar in Japan and ...

APAN talked to the five members of the band at length about everything from the process of creating the new song to the ...