Netflix has teamed up with Palme d’Or-winning Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda, who is writing and directing a classic Japanese family drama series. Titled Asura, the series will be a modern take on ...

The eighth installment of the ACA Cinema Project film series, Family Portrait: Japanese Family in Flux, examines the shifting dynamics and struggles of the Japanese household in contemporary cinema.

TOKYO (AP) — Ryuichi Ichinokawa’s life could be right out of the movie “Rental Family” as the founder nearly two decades ago of the Heart Project business in Japan, which he bills as a surrogate ...

Netflix does bingeable miniseries like nobody else, yet even on the world’s biggest streaming platform, Asura stands apart as a flawless masterpiece. A tale fraught with heartbreak, humorously told ...

Meet Japan's royal family! The Japanese imperial family is thought to be the oldest hereditary royal family in the world, dating back as early as 97 B.C. with Emperor Sujin's reign. The current head ...

Japan took another step towards family law reform on 29 August 2023 when a Ministry of Justice subcommittee published an outline recommending several changes to decades-old civil codes. The Family Law ...

A Japanese, family-run restaurant company called the Raku Corporation, with 13 outlets across Tokyo, has opened its first location in the US and it’s in Santa Monica. Originally scheduled to open in ...

Brendan Fraser learnt Japanese for his new movie Rental Family. The Mummy star, 56, plays an actor working in Tokyo for a rental family service – a business which allows people to hire actors to pose ...