Japanese Americans play historic baseball games at prison camp to recall a pastime — and a lifeline
The games honored Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps after they were forced to relocate during WWII ...
Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan’s Prolific Genre Auteur, Is Still Experimenting: ‘I Keep Scripts Bare Minimum to Allow for Interpretation’
Indeed, Kurosawa has been something of a pioneer in Japanese foreign co-production film and has worked abroad on at least ...
Why this small city is the ‘eyeglasses capital’ of Japan
No, you’re not seeing things. The city of Sabae really is obsessed with spectacles. Here’s how it became famous for its ...
Dodgers vs Yankees World Series Has Made MLB History in Japan
Game 2 of the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees drew 15.9 million viewers from Japan, an MLB ...
Audio-Technica’s New Open-Back Headphones Handcrafted In Japan
Japan's Audio-Technica is celebrating 50 years of making headphones and to mark the occasion, the company is releasing the ...
Can Quake-Prone Japan Ever Embrace Nuclear Energy Again?
The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...
Once illegal, this Japanese alcohol is making a comeback
In spite of the fact that homebrewing is still illegal, the Japanese government allowed for inns and restaurants in special ...
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How Japan Can Strengthen the U.S. Steel Industry
Election politics might have postponed a U.S. government decision about whether the Nippon Steel company’s planned ...
What Japan’s Political Uncertainty Means for Its Market Rally
The long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party has lost its parliamentary majority, raising questions about the policy stability ...
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Shohei Ohtani stokes national pride in Japan with World Series debut
A win for the baseball superstar’s Los Angeles Dodgers “will be seen as a victory for Japanese baseball and the Japanese ...
‘Tokyo Vice’ Producer Alex Boden Details Challenges, Opportunities in Japan Production Landscape
Tokyo Vice' producer Alex Boden reveals how Japan's new tax incentives and production infrastructure are drawing Hollywood to ...
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In Ohtani’s Dodger blue hometown, a shrine to his baseball talent, and humanity
OSHU, Japan — Seems Hair and Spa in Oshu ... But Kanno’s collection has made him surprisingly well-connected to the wider ...