The Japanese film industry is slowly but surely dying.
DEADLINE: Jeremy Thomas was a producer on First Love, and some of your previous films, how did that relationship first come about?
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With nearly $100 billion in capital, SoftBank’s Vision Fund is the world’s largest tech investing fund.
But in recent months, bigger has not proven to be better, and a series of scandals and shortcom…

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The crane game, commonly called the UFO catcher in Japan, has the potential to be either the dizzying high or the abysmal low of your trip to an arcade.
Once there, we gave him 10,000 yen (US$96) and…

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KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 16:58 | Lifestyle, AllA department store in Osaka that suspended a campaign to allow female staff to wear badges indicating they were having their periods is planning to res…

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The hard drives had been used for data sharing servers at the prefectural government office and were replaced with new ones in the spring.
The prefectural government had deleted the data, but the suc…

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Households cut their spending for the first time in almost a year in October as natural disasters disrupted business and the sales tax hike, from 8 percent to 10 percent, prompted consumers to rein i…

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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's National Police Agency unveiled Friday planned changes to the nation's traffic laws that define road rage and impose harsher penalties for dangerous driving, as authorities l…

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East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond.
This is the logo for an upcoming slot machine called Wheel of Fortune.
As poi…

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If you were going to classify anime/manga mega-hit One Piece, you could call it a pirate story, and it’s also clearly an action/adventure treasure-hunting tale.
Heck, friendship is such a central the…

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Just last week we attended the first-ever Star Wars kabuki play, in which famed actor Ichikawa Ebizo portrayed the internal strife of fallen Force-user Kylo Ren.
But there’s now a new stage theatrica…

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