Calbee to switch its brightly coloured packaging to black and white because war has disrupted supply of certain raw materials used in inkJapan’s biggest snack maker has been forced to use black-and-white packaging for some flagship products because of …
Carmaker gives one of biggest warnings yet of conflict’s impact on businesses while Trump tariffs also take tollToyota has reported a £3bn hit from costs from the war in Iran, as prices of parts and materials soared and sales dropped.The world’s bigges…
The incendiary Japanese group who emerged out of late-60s unrest were suspicious of studios so their legacy was long left to bootleg obsessives. But unheard recordings are revealing their lesser-known gifts for melodyBy 1969 student protests were ragin…
The PM is clearly not prepared to risk backlash from Asian energy trading partners during a fuel crisis – but his government will face domestic challenges if it doesn’t move eventuallyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo separ…
Lee Sang-il’s heartfelt drama spans 50 years following the bond and rivalry between two brothers who play the rigorously observed female roles in the traditional art formLee Sang-il’s heartfelt and muscular epic (whose title means “national treasure”) …
Is this the ultimate location for contemplative art? Our writer travels to the legendary island of Naoshima – and meets the great creator of its most spellbinding works. Will he step through the arch and find nirvana?The island of Naoshima used to be h…
The internet was supposed to make travel easier. But the more I research my destination, the more I worry about visiting the wrong bits of itIn the 1980s, a friend of my father navigated through Europe in a camper van with his family using only the map…
Champion nicknamed the Monster holds off late surgeBoth boxers had unbeaten records entering SaturdayBattle billed as biggest fight in Japanese boxing historyNaoya Inoue successfully defended his undisputed super-bantamweight championship with a close …
Inoue wins by unanimous decision in 12 roundsNaoya Inoue is the greatest show in sports todayThe internet has gone out at the Tokyo Dome and is preventing us from live round-by-round coverage, but we’re in the 10th round now. Inoue is up. Stay tuned fo…
The Japanese wrecking ball known as the Monster takes center stage at the Tokyo Dome on Saturday, facing unbeaten rival Junto Nakatani in a matchup for the agesNaoya Inoue made it to the pinnacle of his sport with a destructive upward surge through box…
Highlights of this year’s international photography festival in Kyoto include Linder Sterling’s exclamatory collages, a retrospective of groundbreaking Daido Moriyama and a journey though apartheid South Africa with Ernest ColeKyotographie is Japan’s f…
There is less daffy humour in this sequel than in the 2023 original, but some sublime animationBy the demented standards of fantasy anime, this is fairly straight; the weirdest thing on show here is probably a unicorn-wolf who scoffs pink frosted dough…
Statue recognising Japan’s sexual slavery of up to 200,000 women in second world war will no longer be erected in AucklandNew Zealand officials rejected on Wednesday an application to install a statue commemorating so-called “comfort women” enslaved by…
Justin McCurry on the political rise of the Japanese prime minister and her plan to amend rules constraining the country’s militaryJapan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, plans to amend the constitution for the first time since it went into effect in 1…
The Tale of Kaho, out in July, will be 16th novel by Japanese author who has faced criticism for portrayal of womenThe Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami will publish his first novel to feature a woman as the main character this summer.The Tale of Kaho …
Developments in Berlin and Tokyo show how far the strategic environment has shifted in response to authoritarian threat and American unpredictabilityWhen Donald Trump hosted Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese prime minister, last month, he could not resist a…
Genki Kawamura’s eerie new film expands on a haunting video game that leaves players lost in endless subway tunnels. He explains how this makes viewers and players face their worst fearsGenki Kawamura is something of a polymath. A bestselling author, f…
Endo Kazutoshi spent decades climbing to the top of the culinary world, only for a devastating fire to threaten it all. I joined him in the aftermath as he travelled around his homeland, visiting the people that helped make himWritten and read by Kiera…
A commuter’s entrapment provides a taut, unnerving and rare example of an adaptation that holds close to the video game on which it is basedA glitch in the matrix, a rip in existence’s fragile fabric, and suddenly everything we knew about the world is …
Analysis of video footage reveals how wave changed as it travelled over mud-rich rice paddies, exerting more forceIt is just over 15 years since the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, killing almost 20,000 people and triggering the…