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Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentToei Animation, Kodansha and other anime content providers have banded together to start a channel on YouTube. The goal is to have 30 companies providing 3,000 anime titles by 2022, with the number of views per month reaching 300 million.Called Animelog, or Anilog, the channel was launched Friday by Analyzelog, a company that supports corporate digital strategies.

paid. This summer, the tennis player became of all time with $37.4 million in endorsement deals and prize money. Next year, the 22-year-old will represent Japan in the Tokyo Olympics and—if all goes according to plan–she'll add “gold medal winner” to her résumé.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChina’s Huanxi Media has struck a deal with All3media International to license 110 hours of factual content, that will play on its Huanxi.com SVoD platform.

J-pop boy band DISH// shared the new animated music video for their hit song "Neko - THE FIRST TAKE ver. -" made in collaboration with fans on TikTok.

Japanese rock band SCANDAL will be live-streaming a show for fans around the world on the band's 14th birthday, Aug. 21.

There is no stopping Kim Taehyung this year. The BTS singer has been smashing records after records with Itaewon Class OST Sweet Night for months now.

ARMY was definitely stumped for a second but not completely surprised to see Jin debuting new hair colour (ARMY is a bit confused between orange and light brown) as BTS appeared for a Map of the Soul: 7 - The Journey online event in Japan. Given that the septet will soon kickstart their next comeback, the fandom is used to seeing the members change their hair colour with every comeback.

Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Europe in the early years of World War II has been extended an economic lifeline by people in Japan, officials said Friday. The memorial museum in Lithuania's former capital recounts the story of Chiune Sugihara, who was a vice-consul diplomat based at the Japanese Consulate in Kaunas during 1939-1940.

J-pop boy band SixTONES's "NAVIGATOR" shoots to No. 1 on this week's Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated July 20 to 26, selling 652,277 copies in its first week.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: With the online edition of Japan Cuts, North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema, set to draw to a close on Thursday (July 30), the event has crowned Kontora as the winner of its inaugural Obayashi Prize.Named after the late filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi, who died in April this year at the age of 82, the award was created to encourage the continued development of Japanese indie cinema through the festival’s Next Generation

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentDespite fears that the Japanese summer box office might be a lost cause, with many big Hollywood and local releases postponed, recent figures indicate that audiences, especially younger fans of hit TV shows, are returning to theaters after the coronavirus hiatus.The number one film for the July 20-26 period, when Japan enjoyed a four-day holiday weekend, was the high school comedy “Beginning Today It Is My Turn.” Following its July 17 release, the film has

YOASOBI's "Yoru ni kakeru" logs its fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, returning to the top spot after leading streaming for the eighth week and video views for the seventh.

Also Read: Worldwide Video Game Spending Totals $10.46 Billion in June, Up 9% Annually“Ghost of Tsuhsima” Kurosawa Mode/Sony/Sucker Punch“Ghost of Tsushima” is an open-world video game that casts you as Jin Sakai, a wandering samurai on a Japanese island working to recruit other surviving samurai and rescue your master following a Mongol invasion.But of course, while many video games feature black and white filters, they’re generally simple modifications that can only be unlocked after you’ve

Map of the Soul: 7 - The Journey, which is BTS' fourth Japanese album, has already been on a spree of breaking and setting records even though it's just been over a week since it released. Not only did MOTS: 7 - The Journey reach #1 on the US, UK and Japan iTunes Top Songs chart, but the album also charted at No.

Japanese singer Misako Uno of AAA ("Triple-A") delighted fans last week when she launched her official YouTube channel on her birthday, Thursday (July 16). Two days later, she posted a cover of Eito's "Kousui," the TikTok-generated hit song that reached No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 in May.

Kaia Gerber is Vogue Japan’s September cover star.