From colorful lantern floats to sky-shattering firework displays, Tohoku’s range of festivities is absolutely unmatched. The Sanno Matsuri in Tokyo is a multi-faceted annual festival spread over 11 ...

Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) has hit its stride in the last few years since Hiroyasu Ando joined as chairman and started to restructure the event. Moving to the Hibiya-Ginza district and ...

The 38th Tokyo International Film Festival got off to a gently emotive start Monday night with the local premiere of filmmaker Junji Sakamoto's Climbing for Life, a crowd-pleasing biographical drama ...

With strong accents on mainland Chinese directors, Japan’s next generation of filmmaking talent and a new women’s empowerment section, this week’s Tokyo International Film Festival can lay reasonable ...

In the five years since Hiroyasu Ando took sole charge at the top of Tokyo International Film Festival, the progress made under the energetic octogenarian former diplomat is palpable. Despite the ...

LITTLE TOKYO, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The 82nd Nisei Week Japanese Festival kicks off this weekend! The event takes place August 17 and 18 at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Hello Kitty and Doraemon anime characters strutted their stuff on the red carpet on Thursday, as Disney's "Big Hero 6" kicked off a new-look Tokyo film festival that taps into ...

Japan is having a cultural moment, but demand and deals are centered on regions where the series were hits. By Gavin J Blair Between the tens of millions of tourists visiting and the soft power ...