One of the most notable promotion strategies in the fashion industry over the past two decades must be making use of influencers on social media. In fact, it is becoming increasingly common for fashio...

PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Top U.S. fashion designer Virgil Abloh, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear collection, died Sunday at 41 after battling cancer for several years, the fashion and ...

The names of kabuki performers were displayed on signs Thursday ahead of the annual kabuki play “Kichirei Kaomise Kogyo,” which will be performed at the Minamiza Theatre in Kyoto from Dec. 2 to 2...

Paper quilling is a globally popular art form in which thin colored paper strips are coiled and arranged into myriad shapes, including plants and musical notes. Paper quilled art is garnering more adm...

Asami Maki, the light of the Japanese ballet world, died on Oct. 20 at the age of 87. Maki apparently passed away the day after she was told she would receive the Order of Cultural Merit. Members of...

A classic picture scroll from the Kamakura period (late 12th century-1333) designated as an important cultural asset fetched ¥243.9 million from an unnamed bidder at an auction by a Tokyo company on ...

Jon Batiste might be the Grammys biggest surprise: The multi-genre performer and recent Oscar winner made such an impression on voters that he scored the most nominations with 11 on Tuesday. Batist...

For over three decades, Ongakuza Musical has been creating original musicals. Having overcome being disbanded at one point, the Tokyo-based company is back as big and better than ever, using its own s...

LONDON (AP) — Elton John has no doubt been a member of many exclusive clubs over the decades, but probably nothing quite as exclusive as the one he formally joined on Wednesday. In an investiture...

Specks of glass have never looked so lovely as they do in micromosaics, an art form in which tiny pieces of glass are arranged in a small frame to create a painting-like effect. The brilliance of the ...

Department store sales in Japan, which peaked in 1991 at about ¥9.71 trillion, have been falling ever since, according to the Japan Department Stores Association. Twenty-nine years later in 2020, sal...

Shigeo Nagashima, the lifetime honorary manager of the Yomiuri Giants, was among those who received the Order of Culture from the Emperor at the Imperial Palace on Wednesday, at a ceremony attended b...

WARSAW — Japanese pianists won the second and fourth prizes in the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in the Polish capital on Thursday. Kyohei Sorita won joint second prize and Aimi K...

A young messiah finally finds his calling — after two long hours and change — in “Dune” (which, it should be noted, is actually “Dune: Part 1,” although this fact is not exactly well adver...

A cache of handwritten manuscripts and correspondence from such Japanese literary giants as Ogai Mori (1862-1922) and Soseki Natsume (1867-1916) has been discovered at the offices of publishing house ...

“No Time to Die” is a bit too long and a bit too complicated, with a villain in the form of Rami Malek’s Lyutsifer Safin, whose motivation in seeking a genetically programmable bioweapon that mi...

Samurai swords always draw a crowd, but the current exhibition at the Suntory Museum of Art is taking that attraction to another level. The museum in Minato Ward, Tokyo, has been drawing attention f...

Released by Sony “in association” with Marvel — a deeply confusing business arrangement that has become a coy way of not answering “Is it or isn’t it part of the MCU?” — 2018’s “Veno...

Nearly 20 months have already passed since the novel coronavirus was first detected in Japan. Although the fifth wave of the pandemic began subsiding in September, it is still too early to let our gua...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” a jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s hyperactive 2001 movie, won the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on a Sunday night when Broadway l...

Considering the stage musical “Dear Evan Hansen’s” titular wallflower at one point belts out the mantra, “All that it takes is a little reinvention,” it was perhaps inevitable that the creat...

American photographer Eugene Smith (1918-1978) showed the world the truth about Minamata disease. On Sept. 23, a film about him titled “Minamata” and starring Johnny Depp will be released in Japan...

An exhibition featuring works by photographer Mika Ninagawa opened Thursday at the Ueno Royal Museum in Taito Ward, Tokyo. Organized by The Yomiuri Shimbun, “Mika Ninagawa — Into Fiction/Reality...

An exhibition featuring Japanese swords from historic temples and shrines started Wednesday at the Suntory Museum of Art in Minato Ward, Tokyo. “The Sword: The Soul of the Warrior” exhibition, w...

Paul Schrader has created one of the most compelling and enduring careers in Hollywood by continually returning to his cardinal character: “God’s lonely man,” traversing an alienated and sometim...

As diligent students of the indie-pop form and expert practitioners, few modern bands have remained as durable and beloved as England’s SaintEtienne. While most acts from the 1990s have gracefully d...

The globally renowned creatures of the Pocket Monsters franchise, better known as Pokemon, are appearing in a new outdoor adventure attraction at Yomiuriland amusement park, which straddles the cities...

Fashion schools in Japan can be said to have created the history of fashion in the country. Now, 76 years after the Pacific War, if there is anything wrong with the direction Japanese fashion is headi...

Sota Fujii, 19, the youngest-ever holder of two major titles in the world of shogi, defeated Takuya Nagase, 28, in the second match of a best-of-three series on Monday in Tokyo to determine the challe...

The Shiki Theatre Company’s new musical production, “Frozen,” finally had its opening day on June 24, overcoming the long “winter” that was its postponement amid the novel coronavirus disast...

Sports-themed comics in Spain have been exhibited at the Spanish Embassy in Minato Ward, Tokyo, to coincide with the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Spanish footballer Andres Iniesta, who current...

With the breeze weaving through the amazing geometric patterns of their threads, works of string art are perfect for the hot summer season. String artists hook colorful threads onto nails attached t...

Popular dance and vocal group J SOUL BROTHERS III (JSBIII) are on an unstoppable roll after marking their 10th anniversary last November. With singles “Kick & Slide” and “JSB In Black” out, th...

One of the finest sequences in “Respect,” a biopic about Aretha Franklin starring Jennifer Hudson, is when the singer and producer Jerry Wexler (Marc Maron) are in the legendary Fame recording stu...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Start the countdown. An Amazon series inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” novels will premiere in September 2022. The date was announced...

The world is full of all manner of mysteries, according to a character in “The Green Knight.” And the film — based on a 14th-century Arthurian tale of anonymous authorship that is considered a m...

Even though the pandemic has kept us from going out to enjoy live performances, Ayaka Hirahara’s newest album may make listeners feel as though they were front and center at one of her concerts. ...

Ikimonogakari was introduced as a “J-pop band that makes you cry, laugh, feel pain, love and a sense of nostalgia” when it debuted about 15 years ago. The popular three-member band held the final...

If there’s one thing Nicolas Cage could always be relied on to deliver, it’s unpredictability. But in recent years, the actor has churned out a steady stream of - for lack of a better word - predi...

When Taiwanese horror game “Devotion” first published in 2019, the conversation revolved around Chinese president Xi Jinping and a meme comparing him to Winnie-the-Pooh. The Disney character had n...

A special project called “Pavilion Tokyo 2021,” aimed at showcasing modern Japanese architecture and art, recently began at various locations in the capital and will run through Sept. 5 to coinc...

Since August last year, a curious little project called The Tokyo Toilet has been underway on the streets of Tokyo. Spearheaded by the Nippon Foundation, the project plans to install 17 public restroo...

NEW YORK — To roars reaching volumes you normally hear in arenas 20 times the size, Bruce Springsteen sang Broadway back to life on Saturday night. In the first full-length performance there since t...

Last year, the New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT) had to cancel all of the opera productions in the second half of its season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet the theater has managed to stage every s...

Erika Ikuta has a brilliant track record as a pop star. A leading member of female idol group Nogizaka46, whose very appeal sells over 300,000 copies of photobooks bearing her likeness, has also been ...

“If I didn’t feel like a song I made a year ago is terrible, I’d quit being a musician,” musical artist Vaundy said in an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun. “I have to go beyond those songs...