Japan as a country has always been fascinating for its distinctive culture and traditions, not to mention the unique food dishes that have sent throngs of tourists clamoring for authentic Japanese ...

Japanese Comedy: So Funny, It Hurts Much has been written about Japan’s gross national cool—the worldwide demand for the country’s fashion, cuisine, anime, manga, videogames, and consumer ...

It be your own people; that’s what Haitian-Japanese-American tennis champion Naomi Osaka—who proudly plays for Japan, her country of birth—found out yet ...

So much for "SNL Japan." But it leads to a question about other forms of foreign entertainment and comedy. A fan of musicals, I’ve been to numerous Broadway productions in Tokyo, both in English and ...

The world of Japanese comedy hasn’t often been the topic of feature films in Japan but Naoki Matayoshi’s Akutagawa-prize winning novel “Hibana-Spark” has spurred both a 10-part Netflix TV ...

The military community in Japan can see her perform live this month when the Best Medicine Brigade comedy group tours bases from the snowy northeast to sunny Okinawa.

But the versatile television, movie, and stage performer takes centre stage in this wacky advertising industry comedy whose director (Akira Nagai) made his name doing commercials, and whose ...