The genius behind Zelda is at the peak of his power — and feeling his age Eiji Aonuma designed marionettes before overseeing the wildly popular video game series. Its latest title, ‘Tears of the Kingdom,’ has sold 10 million copies.

President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on July 25. (Demetrius Freeman/The Post)

In Japan's anime universe, ‘Belle’ seeks to rewrite script on female power A sketch of the movie poster for “Belle” at director Mamoru Hosoda’s studio in Tokyo. The film will make its U.S. debut in the Spotlight section of the New York Film Festival on Sept. 25. (Shiho Fukada for The Washington Post)

The Olympic flame arrives at Japan Air Self-Defense Force Matsushima Base, north of Tokyo, on Friday. (Eugene Hoshiko/AP) THE OLYMPIC flame arrived in Japan on Friday, but there was none of the traditional fanfare that normally accompanies the ceremony marking the official start for the global sporting event. Because of concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus, the event was closed to th

In "Kludgeocracy: The American Way of Policy," Johns Hopkins political scientist Steven Teles argues that "[w]ith the frontiers of the state roughly fixed, the issues that will dominate American politics going forward will concern the complexity of government, rather than its sheer size." To that end, he says, "The great agenda of the next four years of the Obama administration, and probably the n

President Trump was reciting the sort of rote praise that leaders of allied nations heap on one another when he suddenly cut himself off during a joint news conference Monday with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “The Japanese people are thriving, your cities are vibrant, and you’ve built one of the world’s most powerful economies,” Trump said, before looking up from his prepared remarks. Turni

Economic distress and anxiety across working-class white America have become a widely discussed explanation for the success of Donald Trump. It seems to make sense. Trump's most fervent supporters tend to be white men without college degrees. This same group has suffered economically in our increasingly globalized world, as machines have replaced workers in factories and labor has shifted overseas

TOKYO — It sounds like a sadly familiar story. A plan for the family to stick out the war in Syria while the children finish their education — but then a missile strikes their home. Jamal, 24, remembers running to the basement after the first explosion and hearing the horrifying sounds above. His younger sister went into shock, prompting his terrified mother to slap her. Like so many other Syrians