Japanese comedian and TV personality Hitoshi Matsumoto dropped a 550 million yen lawsuit against publisher Bungei Shunju Ltd on Friday for defamation for reporting that he had forced women into sexual ...

The Hollywood Reporter Japan turned on the style once more for its Trailblazer Award Gala Party, held Wednesday night at The Peninsula Hotel in Tokyo’s Ginza district. The cast of ‘Shogun ...

St. Louis Ballet’s artistic director Gen Horiuchi choreographed the winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, in 1998. (Horiuchi is ...

Fukuryu turned its Polaris ramen shop into an omakase restaurant, and Hoyo's turned its Somali food space at Bubbly Hall into ...

Carmo restaurant in the Warehouse District will close before the end of 2024, but its chefs have new projects, including a ...

If you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to be Michael from Grand Theft Auto 5 or Kiryu from the Yakuza series, Japanese ... the streets of Tokyo entertainment district Shibuya (where ...

Amazon’s new series based on the long-running Ryu Ga Gotoku games flattens the quirkiest elements of the Kamurocho red-light ...

Actor Napoleon's son got married today in Japan. Sivakarthikeyan has released a video apologizing for not being able to attend the wedding. The video has been receiving a lot of attention on the ...

From providing family history to describing traditional Japanese New Year’s meals to explaining the history of well-known Chinatown International District businesses like Uwajimaya and the ...

FILE - People take a picture of Godzilla's head at Shinjyuku Toho building at the Kabukicho district in Tokyo, July 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File) (Koji ...

KYOTO--A top hotel operator is teaming with a geisha school to open the first luxury accommodation facility in the popular Gion district ... traditional entertainment areas in Japan, is a popular ...

She has been a UNICEF ambassador, a special envoy for Japan’s Foreign Ministry and the subject of themed restaurants, cafes, ...