A Japanese company embroiled in the Tokyo Olympic corruption scandal says it will strengthen oversight to prevent further wrongdoing. The president of the Japanese entertainment company Kadokawa has bowed deeply with two other executives to show remorse in a news conference. He says the company has “seriously betrayed public trust.”
Tourists in Japan enjoy an ice festival, while 240 builders created 30 snow sculptures in Slovenia.
Snow and cold weather affected much of Japan on Wednesday, disrupting highway, air and train travel with more cold temperatures on the way.
China, Japan and other East Asian countries are getting ready to welcome the start of the Lunar Year of the Rabbit, but in Vietnam people are …
On January 17, new figures were published that indicated China's population experienced a decline for the first time in over sixty years.
Conventional wisdom says it's a bad idea to remake a classic. Fortunately, "Living" ignored that wisdom. Akira Kurosawa's "Ikiru" is listed 72nd on Sight and Sound's 2022 director's poll of the 100 best movies and a rewatch confirms it has lost none of its luster. Check out the 1952 original, by all means, but don't overlook the tender British remake, "Living." It's especially worthwhile to ...
Rush hour traffic came to a crawl in Denver during a winter storm, China's population has declined for the first time in decades, and more of …
Prosecutors have argued that the executives were aware of the dangers of a nuclear plant located on Japan’s coast.
While “The Last of Us” looks promising, that hasn’t always been the case for video game-to-movie projects.
President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida were holding wide-ranging talks at the White House on Friday as Japan looks to b…
The conservative leader reiterated his call for closer security cooperation with the United States and Japan to counter the "dangerous situation" created by North Korea.
While speaking to Allure for an interview published on Tuesday, The Sweet Escape singer defended what the outlet dubbed her “Harajuku era”.
Top national security officials from the United States and Japan are expected to announce changes in their joint defense posture on Wednesday …
In 1981 Shigeru Miyamoto created a video game character whose entire personality was contained in what the designer first described as "16 dots by 16 dots."
Sunday “A Year on Planet Earth” (Fox Nation): The wonders of the natural world are on display in this new six-part series. “Elvis: That’s the Way It Is” (TCM, 5 p.m. ET): A two-film birthday salute to the King of Rock ’n’ Roll kicks off with this 1970 concert doc set in Las Vegas. “Alert: Missing Persons Unit” (Fox, 8 p.m.; also 9 p.m. Monday): Scott Caan and “Devious Maids’” Dania Ramirez ...
Many small railway lines across Japanese countryside carry sizeable losses. But in Chiba Prefecture, Katsunori Takemoto has found a way to kee…
“Frank & Marilyn: The Lives, the Loves and the Fascinating Relationship of Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe” by Edward Z. Epstein; Post Hill Press (304 pages, $30) ——— They were strangers in the night. Even as they went from exchanging glances to embracing dances, something warned them do-be-do-be-don’t. “Frank & Marilyn: The Lives, the Loves and the Fascinating Relationship of Frank Sinatra ...
Not long into "Living," Mr. Williams learns that he has not long to live. The news doesn't come as a huge shock, but even if it did, you gather, nothing about this man — not his stiff posture, his calmly appraising gaze or his thin, flat line of a mouth — would betray anything resembling devastation or even surprise. We are in 1950s London, and Mr. Williams, who's spent more than two decades ...
On Wall Street, muted gains were enough to end a four-day losing streak for the major indexes.
The transformation of the American theme park as a palace for thrills and passive rides to locations centered around active play will continue on Feb. 17 when Universal Studios Hollywood opens its Super Nintendo World.
NONFICTION: The little-known story of pacifist activism during World War II, told through the lives of four people. "War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance" by Daniel Akst; Melville House (368 pages, $28.99) ——— In the 1930s, antiwar feeling was widespread. In 1936, some 500,000 students, almost half of the undergraduates in the United ...
It's no surprise — perhaps it was even inevitable — that one of the more widely criticized scenes in "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths," Alejandro G. Iñárritu's magnificent and maddening new movie, would feature an artist confronting his most outspoken critic. The artist — and the movie's protagonist — is Silverio Gama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), an acclaimed journalist and ...
Toyota has unveiled the all-new Prius for the first time globally.
The latest season of Netflix’s acclaimed series “The Crown,” which follows the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, debuts on Wednesday, just two months after the queen died at the age of 96. In this fifth season, created by Peter Morgan, the series has progressed to the 1990s, with Imelda Staunton stepping into the role of the queen in her 60s, taking over for Olivia Colman and Claire Foy, ...
Veuer’s Elizabeth Keatinge tells us what airline just made the list of the top eight in the world.
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