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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 20, 2026
More Chinese films fill TIFF theaters as Canada-China ties warm
Filmmakers and festival programmers point to a growing appetite for stories from China and across the Chinese-speaking world.
Emails and ?wire transfer requests contained in the DOJ documents, which may not be comprehensive, show that Jeffery Epstein discussed purchasing the Palace Bin Ennakhil in Marrakesh with his associates in the spring of 2019.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 21, 2026
A palace in Marrakesh: How Schwab moved $27.7 million in payments for Epstein days before his arrest
Details of the transactions, reported for the first time, show how the U.S. brokerage handled funds for Epstein over the course of several months.
The Toronto International Film Festival opened on Sept. 7 with admiring applause for "The Boy and the Heron," Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki's latest movie — a meditation on love, loss and the horrors of World War II.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 16, 2023
Hayao Miyazaki has ideas for next project after ‘The Boy and the Heron’
Junichi Nishioka, Studio Ghibli’s vice president for international distribution, says the director “shows the willingness to create something new.”
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 27, 2022
Google search ad sales beat targets despite global ‘uncertainty’
The online search giant has weathered storms better than social media companies, bringing in revenue through a greater variety of functions in the ad market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 11, 2022
Take-Two to buy FarmVille maker Zynga in largest-ever gaming deal
Grand Theft Auto video game-maker Take-Two Interactive said Monday it would buy Zynga for $11.04 billion in a cash-and-stock deal.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
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