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The same anomaly that makes foreigners feel icky is harnessed by Japanese people to get breathing room on public transport. ▲ “On a flight the young guy in the seat next to me was invading my sp…
While many men who dress as women are perfectly happy with their masculine features, others prefer a softer, curvier look. But not everyone is blessed with a feminine bodyline or androgynous loo…
Producers for A Silent Voice are planning to accommodate fans who, like the series’ female lead, can’t hear. As such, it’s only fitting that theaters nationwide will be showing the film with Jap…
Brand-new middle school to let students of any gender wear whatever uniform components they feel comfortable in out of consideration to LGBT youths. In 2012, Kashiwanoha Elementary School w…
File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License PhotoOn November 25, 1952, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap opened in London. UPI File Photo | License PhotoOn November 25, 1947, film industry executi…
TOKYO -- American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and Japanese producer Mata Yamamoto announced today they will jointly produce a film on the life and work of controversial novelist and poli…
TOKYO -- A Tokyo man tried today to commit hara-kiri at the shrine honoring Japan's war dead, imitating the ritual suicide 10 years ago of famous Japanese author Yukio Mishima, po…
KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 17:14 | Sports, News, AllMore than 8 million residents of Japan have registered to buy tickets for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics next summer, the games organi…
But a different mental burden takes over the top spot as they get older. Otoko wa Tsurai yo is one of Japan’s longest-running film series. Lean In Tokyo recently conducted a survey, as…
KYODO NEWS - 2 hours ago - 09:48 | All, Lifestyle, JapanToshiba Corp. said Monday it has developed a technology to detect 13 types of cancer from a single drop of blood with 99 percent accu…
