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“Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of Mermaid Mermaid Island” is shaping up to be one of the summer’s biggest hits while surprising some viewers with its dark thematic undercurrents. | © Nagano / 2026 "Chikawa the Movie" Production Committee / VIA PR TIMES It’s hard to walk around Japan without coming across the cuddly characters of “Chiikawa,” the web manga by the artist Nagano. They dangle from han
China’s bid to pressure Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in order to force her hand following her unprecedented remarks that Japan could intervene militarily in a Taiwan crisis has fallen flat, with the LDP’s stunning election victory Sunday giving her the needed political capital to confront Beijing on her terms. Voters, undeterred by apparent Chinese economic retaliation for the November comments,
The Japanese electorate delivered a verdict last weekend that shattered the conventional wisdom of Nagatacho. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Liberal Democratic Party roared back from the political wilderness, securing 316 seats in the 465-seat Lower House of parliament. This supermajority is a stunning reversal of fortune. Just two years prior, voters had sent the LDP to the “penalty box,”
Just three months ago, in October, Japan saw two historic firsts: Sanae Takaichi became the nation's first female prime minister and Satsuki Katayama was appointed the first female finance minister. Many in the liberal media and Takaichi's critics quickly labeled her “hawkish,” “anti-women” and “anti-gender equality,” with National Public Radio in the U.S. declaring, “She broke the glass ceiling,
Nara – In late November, as Nara Park was teeming with tourists enjoying the autumn foliage and famed deer herd, the courthouse across the street was engulfed in a different kind of buzz. The trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, charged with fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022, had entered a crucial stage. For the first time since the trial began under tight security on Oct. 28, t
The Japan International Cooperation Agency is set to designate at least four cities in the country as “hometowns” for certain nations in Africa at the 2025 Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), scheduled to begin on Wednesday. The agency, which assists with implementing development assistance in developing countries, will assign the city of Nagai in Yamagata Prefecture to
The Agency for Cultural Affairs submitted a recommendation to education minister Toshiko Abe on Wednesday to replace the government’s romanization system for the Japanese language, the first such overhaul in 70 years. The agency is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings. The changes are expected to be approved within the cu
Journalist and filmmaker Shiori Ito made the documentary “Black Box Diaries” about her years-long battle to find justice following her sexual assault. | Shiho Fukada / The New York Times An Academy Award nomination is a cause for celebration for anyone, but even more so in the Japanese film industry, where such international honors can be few and far between. This year, Japan has multiple reasons
The pleasure and pain of creativity are both powerfully on display in “Look Back,” a new anime film based on an autobiographical manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, best known for “Chainsaw Man.” The film is directed and adapted by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, who also did the character designs and reportedly drew over half the key animation frames himself. It’s dedication that paid off handsomely in this short yet
I live with my Russian wife in Yokohama. Every year, on Feb. 23, we used to celebrate Defender of the Fatherland Day by opening a bottle of wine. It may seem strange for a Japanese person like myself to be marking a Soviet-era Red Army commemoration but my wife’s family once said to me: “Yu, you have great respect for your homeland. For you, the ‘fatherland’ is your family. So let’s celebrate toge
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Will Japan ever see 'Oppenheimer' screened in its cinemas? Christopher Nolan's film about the creator of the atomic bomb, "Oppenheimer," was released in theaters worldwide this summer and received mostly strong reviews. However, distributors still have not announced whether the film will be shown in Japan's cinemas. | Evelyn Freja / The New York Times Three months since its worldwide release, Chri
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Between China’s 20th Communist Party Congress, that began Sunday, and the next one in 2027, Japan will undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War II in a race to deter Beijing from war in East Asia, according to Japanese government officials and security analysts. Japan identified China as its chief adversary in its 2019 defense white paper, worried that Beijing’s flouting of international
Chiba – Japan’s major tech trade show CEATEC returned to an in-person format on Tuesday for the first time in three years, with firms seizing the chance to directly interact with visitors and show off their latest offerings. Over the past two years, the event was held solely online due to the pandemic, but this year saw the introduction of a hybrid format. Despite excitement over the return to an
Sept. 7-Oct. 30 This upcoming exhibition celebrating Japan’s Meiji Era (1868-1912) aims to live up to its name by setting out to amaze even the most erudite of art and culture fans. One highly anticipated highlight is the jizai okimono display — a selection of 24 remarkably detailed and articulated small metal figures in the form of mythical creatures, insects and crustaceans. The University Art M
Five ballistic missiles launched by China's military during exercises around Taiwan on Thursday were believed to have landed inside Japan's exclusive economic zone for the first time, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said. The Defense Ministry said all five of the missiles that landed within Japan's EEZ — which extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from Japan's coast — had fallen into waters sou
Taipei – In the days leading up to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taiwan, there was a clear contrast between the perspective on the ground here and in Washington. In the island democracy, life carried on as usual. The media focused on domestic news. Taiwanese officials said little about the issue, save Premier Su Tseng-chang telling reporters that Taiwan “warmly welcomes”
What Shinzo Abe really thought The late prime minister’s speechwriter recounts the thought process behind the assassinated leader’s determination to ensure a better future for Japan Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 24, 2019. | DAVE SANDERS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Immediately after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down on Friday morning while stumping in the city of Nara, Japanese media outlets rose to the occasion and provided up-to-the-minute news on the shocking incident throughout the day. Yet a peculiarity remains. While much of the Western press has described the death of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister as an "assassination," all of
Twitter said governments around the world made requests to remove content from a record number of user accounts between January and June last year, with the most coming from Japan, in data to be released by the social media company on Tuesday. The platform said governments made 43,387 legal demands for the removal of content from 196,878 accounts in the six-month period, according to data in its l
The bike safety campaign that backfired Feminist group lodges complaint over Chiba police’s recruitment of avatar All the Chiba Prefectural Police wanted to do was promote bicycle safety. Instead, they found themselves in the middle of an online culture war. In an effort to connect with Japan’s youth, Chiba authorities launched a collaboration in July with VTuber (virtual YouTuber) talent agency V
A hunger strike reignites conversations about parental rights in Japan A recent hunger strike by a French national near Tokyo’s National Stadium has rekindled controversy over Japan’s post-divorce parental authority system, drawing attention to his claim that his children have been “abducted” by his estranged Japanese wife. The story of Vincent Fichot, a long-term resident in Japan who says he has
With a final song and dance performed on a virtual stage, complete with the hashtag #GoodbyeCoco, a 3,501-year-old dragon child best known for her crude jokes and meme reviews “graduated” from Hololive. Twenty years ago, I could have never imagined I’d be writing that paragraph as the opener to a story. Kiryu Coco is a virtual YouTuber, otherwise known as a VTuber, who is acted by a real person an
LONDON – Late last year, a semi-retired British scientist co-authored a petition to Europe's medicines regulator. The petitioners made a bold demand: Halt COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials. Even bolder was their argument for doing so: They speculated, without providing evidence, that the vaccines could cause infertility in women. The document appeared on a German website on Dec.1. Scientists denoun
Mumbai – Three-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka said the sexist comments by Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori were “ignorant,” but refrained from calling on him to resign on Saturday. Earlier this week, the 83-year-old Mori, a former prime minister, said that women talked for too long in meetings. He later retracted and apologized for the comments he had made during a meeting with the Japan Ol
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