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

Netflix’s first Japanese-produced physical survival reality series, Final Draft, concluded on August 12, 2025.

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

Netflix’s AsianDrama series library keeps growing. The streamer announced the premiere of its new rom-com series, Romantics ...

Netflix's fee starts at 800 yen ($7.50) and goes to 1,800 yen ($17) in Japan. Amazon does not give a breakdown by nation for its 150 million global Amazon Prime users, but its subscribers are ...

“Japan’s love affair with unscripted content goes back to the 1950s and remains one of the country’s most dominant forms of entertainment,” said Netflix’s two managers of live action ...

Netflix has finally arrived in Japan, a country with huge revenue potential for the video streaming company. However, it's clearly done its research, choosing to launch the service in a slightly ...

At launch, Netflix Japan will include a number of Japanese films and TV series, as well as Netflix originals including “Marco Polo” and the upcoming “Daredevil” from Marvel, the company said.

Last month, Netflix launched in six new European markets and now serves 50M subscribers in 50 countries around the world. Pretty soon, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said this morning, Asia ...

Netflix's director of content acquisition, Kaata Sakamoto, has been with Netflix since its Japan launch five years ago. He said hardly anyone expressed interest in making content for Netflix at first.

Netflix will launch a streaming-video subscription service in Japan this fall, the company announced Wednesday. At launch, Netflix Japan will include a number of Japanese films and TV series, as ...