The director's film adaptation of Yoko Ogawa's novel, in which Masatoshi Nagase plays a dangerously seductive translator, blurs the line between fantasy and reality.

A genre of Japanese pop music conjures nostalgia at home and new inspiration for artists overseas.

The artist-turned-talent agency CEO says Japan’s music industry needs a major modern makeover.

The festival examines radically different ways of creating and experiencing theater in the context of the pandemic, while also challenging the very idea of what ...

The ukiyo-e artist's extensive body of work devoted to Japan's oldest form of live theater has gone largely overlooked — until now.

Yoshinari Nishikori offers a relatively upbeat take on a well-worn story of a rural Japanese community in decline.

The former “Amachan” actor’s film was inspired by the frustration and anger of young people whose lives have come to a standstill because of the ...

Geraldine Harcourt’s road to translating Yuko Tsushima’s stories parallels the writer’s artistic conceits: a fiercely independent woman determined to construct her own path.

At Super Bowl LVI, rap finally got the spotlight . . . in perhaps the 20-somethingth year of hip-hop occupying the center of American pop ...

Landscape artist Marc Peter Keane’s collection of essays experiments with form and offers practical observations as well as metaphysical musings.