Edgar Harrell (1924–2021), last surviving Marine from the USS Indianapolis

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair was thinking back to visiting a school in Japan "in the middle of nowhere".

something, the pieces didn't come together until she left a career in finance for business school, and met her co-founder, Justin Silver. Silver had perviously worked on the beauty brand , and Roy quickly realized that she could introduced American women to Indian ingredients in the same way Tatcha did for Japanese ones. “There's so much that's so sacred to our culture that hasn't been brought here,” Roy recalls telling Silver.

Gwen Stefani is hitting back at longstanding claims that through her association with the "Harajuku Girls," a group of Japanese-American women known for their steep sense of style, Stefani has been "appropriating" Japanese street fashion. The "No Doubt," 51, singer fended off criticism in a cover interview with Paper magazine on Wednesday and told the publication that in her estimation, all cultures have inspiration from many outside influences that make it what it is.

The 21st BET Awards 2021 nominees list was unveiled today, with Megan Thee Stallion and DaBaby leading the pack with seven nominations.

The 2021 Daytime Emmy Awards nominees have been revealed.

Jamie Lang Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival has unveiled much of its feature lineup including early highlights from several sidebars for this year’s online 25th edition, with the full program to be announced in July.Fantasia’s preliminary lineup is highlighted by a glut of world and premieres including Edoardo Vitaletti’s “The Last Thing Mary Saw”; fest regular Richard Bates Jr.’s “King Knight”; Mikhael Bassilli and Luc Walpoth’s “Baby Money”; Canadian actor-turned-director Mark

The 2021 Billboard Music Awards winners have been revealed!

Netflix has announced the full list of movies and television shows heading to the streaming service beginning June 1.

Henry Golding has released the first teaser trailer for his upcoming movie Snake Eyes!

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are taking place in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but thanks to live streaming, there are more ways to watch than ever. The two-week event kicks off on July 21 and runs through Aug. 8 in its host city of Tokyo, Japan.Among the stars expected to compete for Team USA include Megan Rapinoe, along with the dominant U.S.

Ready for their encore! After postponing shows for the first time in more than 30 years amid the COVID-19 crisis, the Stars on Ice tour is making a triumphant return to arenas near you.

Billie Hayes was an actress best known for playing Witchiepoo, the villain of the cult classic children’s show “H.R. Pufnstuf.”Hayes’ Witchiepoo became one of the most beloved villains of children’s TV as she rode her Vroom Broom around Living Island and tried to steal Freddy the Flute.

declaring a state of emergency just last month, Noto says their case rate has been low throughout the pandemic. Regardless, their tourism industry has taken a big hit, they said.The peninsula city received a total of 800 million Yen in emergency economic relief funds though government grants, Yahoo Japan reported, and were not set aside for just coronavirus-related efforts.

The independent wrestling world is the setting for the new Starz original drama series Heels, which released its official trailer and key art today.

If fate has cruelly robbed us of the chance to see the late Chadwick Boseman play the African samurai known in history’s annals as Yasuke, then hearing Lakeith Stanfield give him a voice and a mood makes for a good consolation prize. Granted, the Boseman film, in stasis after his passing, sounded more factually inclined on paper, telling of how Yasuke went from serving Italian Jesuit Alessandro Valignano to serving Japanese Daimyo Oda Nobunaga.

“Godzilla Vs. Kong” has marched to $406 million worldwide so far, which is pretty damn good if you consider, we’re still in a pandemic, and many North American viewers experienced the movie at home on HBO Max.

EXCLUSIVE: This is a hot package which is being assembled right now: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton is attached to direct an adaptation of the upcoming Viking nonfiction book Facing the Mountain by bestselling author Daniel James Brown. I’ve just been updated that this is going out as a series.

Four days before its premiere, Netflix is giving fans the trailer for its highly anticipated anime series, .Inspired by the little-known tale of a legendary Black samurai,  follows a real-life man of African origin who served under the Japanese lord Oda Nobunaga in the 1500s.