Goson Sakai, 29, is a former professional soccer player of Japanese and German heritage. He comes from an athletic family, as ...

All but one of the 25 contestants have retired from their sports. The prize is 30 million yen (just over $200,000).

A new series called Final Draft hit Netflix today [Tuesday, August 12], and it's a Japanese competition show. It puts ...

Story by Koji Uchida Anticipation for the live-action Netflix series "ONE PIECE" Season 2 reached a fever pitch at “ONE PIECE DAY’25,” the annual fan event held in Tokyo, as star Iñaki Godoy made his ...

Shoplifters' star Mayu Matsuoka and 'Alice in Borderland's Riisa Naka will star in 'Plastic Beauty', a Japanese drama series ...

Riisa Naka and Mayu Matsuoka will star as rival surgeons in Netflix’s upcoming Japanese drama series “Plastic Beauty,” which takes viewers inside Japan’s cosmetic surgery industry. The 2026 series ...

Rounding out the Korean selections is “The Murky Stream,” a period action drama set in late Joseon era directed by Choo Chang ...

Netflix reboots the 1975 classic 'Bullet Train' with unprecedented access to Japan's bullet trains, and a star-studded cast led by Tsuyoshi Kusanagi.

In a world hungry for faster data—think AI training, quantum computing, 8K streaming, and massive cloud backups—Japan’s ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Netflix's subscribers passed 10 million in Japan in the first half of this year with the streaming firm's Japanese-language programming grabbing attention in the growing market.

TOKYO — The highspeed bullet train says Japan as much as Godzilla, sushi and Mount Fuji. And it takes center stage in Shinji Higuchi’s new film, “Bullet Train Explosion,” which premieres ...