Japan's flagship cinema event, which has begun a creative rejuvenation of late, unveiled its 2021 program. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief The Tokyo International Film Festival unveiled the ...

The 2021 Tokyo Marathon has been postponed until March 6, 2022, because of the surge in the Delta variant of COVID-19, the Tokyo Marathon Foundation announced on Friday, September 17. The event was ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The first season of Tokyo Revengers’ anime brought the story of Takemichi Hanagaki to a close for ...

Tokyo Game Show 2021 has arrived and brings with it some big announcements from such companies as Xbox, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Capcom, Konami, miHoYo, Bandai Namco, and much more. The show has already ...

Haruhiko Kuroda answers questions during a press conference following a two-day policy board meeting at the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on August 7, 2015. As Japan’s 2021 staggers toward a close, no one is ...

The International Olympic Committee has agreed to postpone this year’s Summer Olympics in Tokyo to 2021 after weeks of mounting pressure and criticism in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. All ...

TOKYO — Almost overnight, Japan has become an extraordinary, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story. Daily new cases have plummeted from a mid-August peak of nearly 6,000 in Tokyo down to ...

ENIWA, Japan — Dozens of tanks and soldiers fired explosives and machine guns in drills Monday on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, a main stronghold for a nation that is perhaps the world’s ...

TOKYO — Using a long pair of tweezers, Monami Ohno delicately places tiny cardboard “scales” on the legs of her sculpture of Godzilla, the giant reptile from the classic Japanese movie. Over the past ...

The most important development for Taiwan’s security might be unfolding right now in Japan. Tokyo’s strategy toward Taiwan is dramatically shifting. Once reluctant to join all but the most anodyne of ...