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Godzilla Minus One review – rageful monster is one of the best in the series
Director Takashi Yamazaki sets his destroyer of worlds against a postwar Japan still recovering from the effec…
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Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘final’ film The Boy and the Heron hits No 1 at North American box office
The Japanese director’s animation beats The Hunger Games prequel and Godzilla Minus One on its opening weekend…
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‘I’m really serious this time!’: have Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli made their final masterpiece?
The veteran animation genius has said he’s retiring – but as he’s changed his mind before, should anyone take …
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‘Like brushing my teeth’: how Michiru Aoyama writes, records and releases an album every day
For two years, the Kyoto musician has risen at five, watched football, then made an eight-track album of super…
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Jazz rulebreaker Hiromi: ‘The piano is a plane that can take me anywhere’
As she arrives in the UK for London jazz festival, the Japanese pianist explains how she subverts expectations…
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Power up: will Chinese financing be the saviour of the Japanese video game industry?
Japan is seen as the home of games, but the sector is struggling – and China is poaching its talent. It’s a po…
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Dekotora: the decorated trucks of Japan – a photo essay
Photographer Julie Glassberg has been documenting the misunderstood alternative culture based around brightly-…
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‘For me it represents the death of the future’: Johny Pitts on Lost in Translation at 20
Sofia Coppola’s idiosyncratic 2003 film made a huge impression on the young Johny Pitts. Two decades on, the w…
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Pokémon no go: Van Gogh Museum stops free cards amid tout chaos
Booming resale market for cards featuring Pikachu in style of Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait With Grey Felt HatThey …
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Ambiguous Japanese eco-drama wins London film festival top prize
Evil Does Not Exist, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, is about community’s fight against ‘glamping’ developmentA…
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Japan’s floating world, Britain’s lakes of paint and California’s sculpted light – the week in art
Also, a newly restored first world war masterpiece and a 400-year-old portrait of one of the world’s first pro…
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Japan: Myths to Manga review – kids, can you see the rabbit grinding rice on the moon?
Young V&A, LondonJapan’s rich folklore has hugely influenced movies, manga, anime and video games, as this…
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Sizzling hunks, street smash-ups and kabuki rebels: the dazzling photography of Daidō Moriyama
The enigmatic Japanese photographer, who took some of the 20th century’s most compelling images, is finally ge…
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One kissa is all it takes: Tokyo’s finest jazz haunts – in pictures
Jazz kissa are niche Japanese cafes stacked with whisky, vinyl and high-end audio systems. Philip Arneill capt…
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Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time review – surreal visual brilliance
Hideaki Anno’s four-part reworking of his philosophical 90s anime classic Neon Genesis Evangelion reaches its …
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‘I try to photograph the unseen’: Michael Kenna on 50 years of shooting breathtaking landscapes
A new book celebrates half a century of work by the landmark English photographer, who has captured everything…
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‘Then the black rain fell’: survivor’s recollections of Hiroshima inspire new film
The 230-page unpublished memoir will reflect the horrors suffered by ordinary Japanese citizens in a feature-l…
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‘Everyone has the same dream’: Mount Fuji grapples with rise in tourism
Millions visit Japan’s highest peak each year, creating pollution and putting pressure on medical centreThe hu…
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Tokyo Story review – Yasujiro Ozu’s exquisite family tale stands the test of time
An elderly couple visit their grownup children in this stunning work of art from 1953, now re-released for its…
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Tokyo’s coin-operated laundries – in pictures
There are an estimated 20,000 coin-operated laundries across Japan, a number that has doubled in the last two …