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RYOMA TAKEUCHI

Keita Machida (left) and Ryoma Takeuchi play a pair of ballroom dancers whose relationship becomes more than strictly professional in Keishi Otomo¡¯s live-action manga adaptation, ¡°10 Dance.¡±
CULTURE / Film
Dec 18, 2025
¡®10 Dance¡¯ teases passion but stays cautiously chaste
Ryoma Takeuchi brings the swagger as a bad-boy Latin dance champion, but Keishi Otomo¡¯s queer romance delivers surprisingly little heat.
Ryoma Takeuchi (right) is perfectly cast as Kazuma Kiryu, a Jack Reacher-esque character of impermeable physicality in Amazon Prime¡¯s new series ¡°Like a Dragon: Yakuza.¡±
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Oct 25, 2024
Amazon¡¯s ¡®Like a Dragon: Yakuza¡¯ pulls its biggest punch
Amazon¡¯s new series based on the long-running Ryu Ga Gotoku games flattens the quirkiest elements of the Kamurocho red-light district for a run-of-the-mill crime drama.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 11, 2021
¡®The Sun Stands Still¡¯: Race against time fails to pick up the pace
Eiichiro Hasumi¡¯s big-budget thriller about globe-trotting spies is not quite Â鶹´«Ã½ answer to the ¡°Mission: Impossible¡± movies.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 1, 2018
¡®Sensei Kunshu¡¯: Looking for love in all the wrong places
Student crushes on teachers are a pop culture staple (ask any Van Halen fan). In real life, they¡¯re a minefield, with trip wires becoming ever more sensitive.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 17, 2016
¡®Yell For the Blue Sky¡¯: High school drama never really changes
The seishun eiga or ¡°youth film¡± is one Japanese genre that doesn¡¯t travel well abroad. With only a few exceptions, these films assume a familiarity with the insular world of the Japanese high school (or, once in a while, junior high school) that outlanders are unlikely to possess. They also follow certain...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 10, 2016
¡®Aiba Learns¡¯; ¡®Good Fortune! Appraisal Team for Anything High Quality Treasure Salon¡¯; Lotte ¡ª So
In addition to singing and dancing, the popular male idols managed by Johnny & Associates do a lot of educational TV, including ¡°Aiba Manabu¡± (¡°Aiba Learns¡°; TV Asahi, Sun., 6 p.m.), in which Masaki Aiba, a member of boy band Arashi, learns about some common process. In the past, Aiba and his guests...
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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