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Summer Sonic stalwarts Babymetal curated an eclectic lineup to celebrate the summer music festival's 25th anniversary.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 10, 2026
Too much music, not enough weekend: A guide to Summer Sonic 2026
By Patrick St. Michel
From metal to 1990s dance nostalgia, this year¡¯s event packs an absurd amount of music into one long weekend.
Bunraku puppeteer Tamasuke Yoshida rehearses with Catalonian singer Maria Arnal for the upcoming performances of ¡°Kinkakuji¡± in Tokyo.
CULTURE / Stage
Aug 8, 2026
A Yukio Mishima stage adaptation pulls genre-bending strings
By Kris Kosaka
A cross-cultural collaboration mixing bunraku puppetry, kabuki and literature is creating a new take on Yukio Mishima¡¯s novel.
Seven years after traveling back in time and falling in love with a kamikaze pilot, Yuri (Haruka Fukuhara, left) contemplates a new beginning in Takehiko Shinjo¡¯s ¡°Till We Meet Again on the Starry Hill.¡±
CULTURE / Film
Aug 8, 2026
¡®Till We Meet Again on the Starry Hill¡¯: Time-travel kamikaze romance gets a pointless sequel
By James Hadfield
Takehiko Shinjo¡¯s follow-up to a 2023 hit film is even more muddled than its predecessor.
Naoto Takenaka (left) and Mugi Kadowaki star as a homeless man and social worker who team up to investigate the identity of a dead man in Chinese director Qi Wang¡¯s ¡°Ghost of Ueno.¡±
CULTURE / Film
Aug 7, 2026
¡®Ghost of Ueno¡¯: A human drama about the invisible among us
By Mark Schilling
Chinese director Qi Wang¡¯s film examines the plight of the homeless and disenfranchised in Japan with a humanist lens.
Takeshi Shibata (middle) directs Masahiro Motoki on the set of ¡°The Man Who Carries the Voice of August.¡± Shibata says he hopes the film can help viewers around the world understand hibakusha and ¡°the threat of nuclear weapons.¡±
CULTURE / Film
Aug 6, 2026
¡®The Man Who Carries the Voice of August¡¯ explores the fragile legacy of the hibakusha
By Sebastien Raineri
A journalist¡¯s effort to record hibakusha testimonies raises questions about memory, truth and survival.
Author Keigo Higashino's newest and last book is displayed at a Kinokuniya bookstore on Wednesday in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 5, 2026
Fans rush to buy copy of Keigo Higashino¡¯s final work
By Elizabeth Beattie
The release of ¡°Eternal Memory¡± comes after the acclaimed mystery author died of colorectal cancer last month.
The Rabbit Hole is helping redefine Okayama as a contemporary-art destination.
CULTURE / Art
Aug 4, 2026
Before the art islands, a reason to stop in Okayama
By Erik Augustin Palm
The Rabbit Hole and Fukuoka Shoyu Gallery make Okayama a contemporary-art destination before visitors reach the Seto Inland Sea.
Etc.books was named for those who appear as ¡°etc.¡± or footnotes in society.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 2, 2026
Etc.books: A lone bookstore in Tokyo pushes against sexism
By Kim Kahan
Etc.books helped redefine feminist publishing in Japan. Now its greatest challenge is staying open.
Stephanie Zaharis, who plays Misa in ¡°Death Note: The Musical,¡± performs at a media event in London to promote the show.
CULTURE / Stage
Aug 1, 2026
¡®Death Note¡¯ musical eyes a London breakthrough
By Alicia Haddick
Producers hope the hit adaptation opens the door for more Japanese original musicals overseas.
Sosuke Ikematsu (center) stars in Yuya Ishii¡¯s ¡°The Secret Battlefield,¡± a historical drama about the Japanese research institute that correctly predicted the country¡¯s defeat in the Pacific War.
CULTURE / Film
Aug 1, 2026
¡®The Secret Battlefield¡¯: An inside view of the machinery of war
By James Hadfield
Yuya Ishii¡¯s historical drama about the Japanese think tank that failed to avert the Pacific War can¡¯t shake its made-for-TV origins, but it¡¯s a valuable cautionary tale.
¡°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.
CULTURE / Film
Jul 31, 2026
¡®Chiikawa¡¯ was always darker than it looked
By Patrick St. Michel
Cute characters, folk horror and lingering trauma: ¡°Chiikawa¡± makes an unexpectedly haunting leap to the big screen.
Newcomer Risa Sierra plays Elena Takahashi, a high school transfer student who gets targeted by a monster with a bandaged head, in ¡°The Invisible Half.¡±
CULTURE / Film
Jul 31, 2026
¡®The Invisible Half¡¯: Stylish J-horror anchored in a standout performance
By Mark Schilling
Masaki Nishiyama¡¯s debut feature is a polished, provocative take on horror tropes, with a riveting performance by newcomer Risa Sierra.
America¡¯s cyberforces grapple with cluster of deaths by suicide
The U.S. Cyber Command building (center) stands on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.
Speaking Japanese at the movies with ¡®Chiikawa¡¯
A "Chiikawa The Movie" poster is seen at Toho Cinemas in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.
How Â鶹´«Ã½ racehorses find second careers away from the track
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