On Sept 2, 1957, Japan’s 60-year-old foreign minister, Aiichiro Fujiyama, stood on the stage of Tokyo’s Sankei Hall. The Corsica Daily Sun reported at the time that in front of him — and among ...

TOKYO AMC’s “Mad Men” has won a devoted following, and armloads of Emmys, with its brand of Kennedy-era cool. Now Japanese broadcasters and pic producers are building their own nostalgia boom for the ...

Takagi Akimitsu, one of the most prolific and well-known crime novelists of 20th century Japan, was also a brilliant photographer. A French book depicting his photos from 1950s Tokyo was recently on ...

Puppeteer Montomi Kiritake is seen during a special Bunraku performance of The White Buddha in Tokyo on May 25, 2022. Half-black Kenta, sent to his grandfather's tiny village after his parents' death, ...