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EXCLUSIVE: New York’s Japan Society has unveiled the full line-up for the 15th edition of Japan Cuts: Festival Of New Japanese Film, the largest celebration of Japanese cinema in North America.

Super Robot Wars 30 has been announced for release in the West for the first time, according to developers Bandai Namco.After three decades of success in Japan, the Super Robot Wars series will be coming to the US and Europe for the first time.

South Korea’s Olympic committee said it has removed flags at its Olympic village in Tokyo after they raised bad memories about a past military conflict between Japan and Korea.

coronavirus pandemic, with just five days to go before opening. Surveys show the Japanese public remains worried about health risks, and some want the event canceled or postponed again.IOC President Thomas Bach has faced protesters in Tokyo and Hiroshima, the site of the World War II atomic bombing.

There aren’t a lot of videos of Naomi Osaka speaking Japanese, but trust that she knows and understands the language. Naomi, who was born in Osaka, Japan, is half-Japanese and half-Haitian.

EXCLUSIVE: Indiecan Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Junta Yamaguchi’s Japanese comedy Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes.

Coach has announced the new BAPE x Coach collaboration and Megan Thee Stallion is starring in a campaign for the collection!

Stephen A. Smith is in a HUGE quagmire this week after saying MLB baseball star Shohei Ohtani — who is Japanese — is “harming” the marketing of professional baseball in America because he “doesn’t speak English.”

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSpotify and New York’s legendary Electric Lady Studios have expanded their partnership to include a series of live EPs, starting later this month.

Since his 2008 debut film, Passion, Japanese director/writer Ryusuke Hamaguchi has been continuing to make an impact on the world cinema scene. His success at various festivals includes 2018, when he was first in competition in Cannes with Asako I & II, and earlier this year at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, where his Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.

Marsai Martin isn’t surprised that Beyoncé, Simone Biles and Megan Thee Stallion are, like her, all from Texas. “We are just a different breed,” the 16-year-old Black-ish star tells HollywoodLife. “We are bold. Honestly, it’s one of those things that, when someone is from Texas, you can just feel their energy.”

Adult Swim and Crunchyroll have revealed the characters and stellar English and Japanese voice cast of its anticipated animated series Blade Runner: Black Lotus, inspired by the Blade Runner movie franchise.

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has shared an intimate cover of Japanese Breakfast‘s ‘Kokomo, IN’ via his latest Instagram Live.Tweedy, from a side profile, is seen seated in front of some outlandish curtains, his cozy acoustic version of Japanese Breakfast’s ‘Jubilee’ cut matching the original’s dreamlike ambience.Upon seeing Tweedy’s rendition, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner shared a post to Instagram (July 2) conveying her excitement, saying: “Words can’t begin to express how mind blowing it

Amazon Prime Video has set an exclusive global premiere — outside Japan — for anime hit Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon A Time. The fourth and final chapter of the Evangelion: New Theatrical Edition will launch in over 240 countries on August 13.

EXCLUSIVE: Amuse Group USA, the American wing of one of Japan’s leading entertainment companies, is launching a new event that will put a selection of hot Japanese properties in front of U.S. content creators.

Nintendo has released a public network test for the upcoming cross-platform MOBA Pokémon UNITE on the Japanese Switch eShop.The Pokémon Company announced the release via its official Japanese Twitter feed.