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Keigo Higashino's meticulously constructed mysteries and memorable characters earned him readers across languages and cultures.
CULTURE / Books
Jul 30, 2026
Keigo Higashino¡¯s ¡®global afterlife¡¯
As tributes pour in for the prolific author who died at age 68 last week, his English translators reflect on his legacy and impact abroad.
Japan's cocktail scene underperformed at the Asia's 50 Best Bars awards, announced Tuesday from Macau.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 29, 2026
Japan shut out of Asia¡¯s 50 Best Bars top 10 for first time
Â鶹´«Ã½ reduced showing reflects Asia¡¯s rapidly expanding cocktail scene, as standout bars emerge well beyond the region¡¯s traditional hubs.
Miho Takagi celebrates winning bronze in the women's 500m at the Milano Cortina Olympic Games in Milan, Italy, on Feb. 15.
OLYMPICS / Speedskating
Jul 28, 2026
Japan speedskating star Miho Takagi to get People¡¯s Honor Award next week
Takagi will be presented with the People¡¯s Honor Award at the prime minister¡¯s office on Aug. 4.
A display featuring Keigo Higashino¡¯s work, with a range of his titles translated into multiple languages, at Books Kinokuniya Tokyo in the capital¡¯s Shinjuku Ward on Tuesday
CULTURE / Books
Jul 28, 2026
Japanese author Keigo Higashino, known for intricate mystery novels, dies at 68
Higashino, a prolific writer lauded for his creativity, died of cancer, his official X account said.
Miho Takagi celebrates after the final race of her career in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on March 8.
OLYMPICS / Speedskating
Jul 23, 2026
Speedskater Miho Takagi to receive People¡¯s Honor Award
Takagi, 32, participated in four Winter Olympics and won a total of 10 medals, the most for a Japanese female Olympian.
Susumu Tonegawa, the first Japanese laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has died. He was 86.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2026
Susumu Tonegawa, first Japanese Nobel laureate in medicine, dies at 86
Tonegawa received the Nobel Prize in 1987 for clarifying how limited sets of genes produce various antibodies that play an important role in immunity.
Kasumi Asakura (left) and Chito Kosagawa won the 175th Naoki and Akutagawa Prizes, respectively, for their novels ¡°Kengwai¡± and ¡°Zonbi Kaishufu.¡±
CULTURE / Books
Jul 15, 2026
Chito Kosagawa and Kasumi Asakura win Â鶹´«Ã½ top literary prizes
Tech-dystopian fiction and a historical novel claimed Â鶹´«Ã½ highest literary honors on Wednesday.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi spent two months in Paris conducting research for ¡°All of a Sudden,¡± which centers primarily on a conversation between two women that unfolds over the course of a single evening.
CULTURE / Film
Jun 19, 2026
Ryusuke Hamaguchi wants to make the impossible possible
An ethos of idealism is pervasive in the director¡¯s first French-language film, which came with the challenge and exhilaration of shooting in Paris.
Yuhan, 24, Ejae and Mark Sonnenblick pose with the best song written for visual media award for "Golden" from ¡°KPop Demon Hunters¡± during the 68th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 1.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jun 17, 2026
Grammys to add best Asian pop music performance category in 2027
The new Grammy category gives J-pop, K-pop and C-pop acts greater opportunities for international recognition.
Kaze Fujii received a second consecutive album of the year award for ¡°Prema,¡± his English-language debut, at the Music Awards Japan ceremony.
CULTURE / Music
Jun 17, 2026
Music Awards Japan levels up and looks ahead
Â鶹´«Ã½ largest music award ceremony moved to Tokyo for its second year, with a night of electric performances and artists honored in 78 categories.
Tao Okamoto (left) and Virginie Efira (right) shared the Cannes Film Festival¡¯s best actress honor for their roles in Ryusuke Hamaguchi¡¯s ¡°All of a Sudden,¡± a coproduction between Japan, France, Belgium and Germany.
CULTURE / Film
Jun 4, 2026
Â鶹´«Ã½ Cannes moment signals a new global push
Tao Okamoto made history at Cannes, while Japanese filmmakers and producers looked ahead, embracing collaboration as the future of the industry.
Yoko Takahashi performs the theme song to ¡°Neon Genesis Evangelion¡± at the 10th annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards, which drew an international crowd of entertainers from around the world.
CULTURE / Film
Jun 4, 2026
10th Anime Awards spotlight industry¡¯s international reach
Celebrity guests from Canada, India and other countries attended Crunchyroll¡¯s annual awards ceremony, a testament to anime¡¯s growing cultural footprint around the world.
Yo Kitamura won the fifth prize in the cello division of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels on Sunday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
May 31, 2026
Japanese cellist Kitamura wins fifth prize in Brussels contest
Kitamura, 22, played Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev¡¯s Symphony-Concerto and other works with the Belgian National Orchestra.
Japan's Tao Okamoto and Belgium's Virginie Efira, co-winners of the best actress award for their roles in the film "All of a Sudden," celebrate during the closing ceremony of the 79th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on Saturday.
CULTURE / Film
May 24, 2026
In first for Japanese, Tao Okamoto shares Best Actress award at Cannes
Okamoto shared the honor with Belgium¡¯s Virginie Efira for their roles in the drama ¡°All of a Sudden¡± by Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Miho Takagi celebrates after competing in the final race of her speedskating career at the ISU Speed Skating World Championships in Heerenveen, the Netherlands, on March 8.
JAPAN
May 22, 2026
Japanese government considers honoring speedskating star Miho Takagi
Takagi, Â鶹´«Ã½ most decorated Winter Olympian, with 10 medals, retired after her last competition in March.
A couple (played by Haruka Ayase, right, and the mononymous Daigo) struggling to come to terms with the death of their son welcome a humanoid (Rimu Kuwaki, center) modeled after their child in ¡°Sheep in the Box.¡±
CULTURE / Film
May 21, 2026
Hirokazu Kore-eda says human imagination still matters in the age of AI
The director¡¯s new film is a meditation on grief, humanoids and creativity at a time when AI is reshaping the film industry.
"Nagi Notes" director Koji Fukada attends a press conference at the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
May 15, 2026
At Cannes, director Koji Fukada says AI undermines the creative process
Speaking at Cannes, the ¡°Nagi Notes¡± director warned that AI-generated art may come at the expense of human expression and discovery.
The Venice Biennale dates back to 1895, when the first International Art Exhibition was organized.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
May 1, 2026
Jury of Italy¡¯s Venice Biennale resigns en masse
Following the resignations, the Biennale said it has decided that the award ceremony, previously scheduled for May 9, will take place on Nov. 22.
Akira Yamamoto, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, is among the winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 20, 2026
Japanese researchers among winners of physics prize
Akira Yamamoto and his colleagues developed high-performance superconducting magnets used to precisely?measure?subatomic particles known as muons.
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda's ¡°Sheep in the Box" is up for a Palme d¡¯Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Films by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Koji Fukada are also in the running for the festival's top prize.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Apr 14, 2026
Three Japanese directors vie for top prize at Cannes, a first since 2001
Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Koji Fukada bring a strong Japanese presence to the Cannes Film Festival¡¯s competition section this year.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®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 Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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