Because of the desolate landscape, Kobayashi chose snow-covered Hokkaido (the most northern island of Japan) as the setting for Amazing Story, a light-erotic drama about a lonely man, Kenji, who ...

Find out how some of the Samurai Blue's biggest names reached the pinnacle of sport via university. One of the pivotal moments in Japanese football arrived in 1993, as the J-League finally came into ...

Ms. Yamazaki is a documentary filmmaker. Update: This documentary short is nominated for the 97th Academy Awards. What makes Japanese people distinctively Japanese? For me, the key lies in what we are ...