NEW YORK — In “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On,” a 1987 documentary that takes many abrupt twists and turns, one of the most surprising comes about a half-hour in. The Japanese ...

Perhaps an ideal location for a screening of The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan, a documentary that tackles an often-overlooked aspect of an under-reported wider issue.

Yamagata Prefecture, lying roughly 300 kilometers north of Tokyo on the Sea of Japan side of the Tohoku region, is blessed ...

She sparked Japan's #MeToo reckoning. Then she made a documentary about it Margy Rochlin Mon, December 2, 2024 at 11:00 AM UTC 5 min read ...

The documentary traces more than a year in the life of the 22-year-old Tomoaki Hamatsu, better known as Nasubi, who leaves his home in rural Fukushima to pursue a career in entertainment in Tokyo.

VIDEO COURTESY AP Award-winning documentary "The Ones Left Behind," tells the story of poverty-suffering single mothers in Japan, weaving together interviews with the women and experts.

No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a ...

The practice was made famous in the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove." Dolphin hunting season has commenced in the small village of Taiji, Japan, with a quota to kill more than 1,400 ...