When Shiori Ito alleged at a 2017 news conference that Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a prominent TV journalist and friend of Japan’s then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, had two years earlier drugged and raped her ...

The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan Australian filmmaker Rionne McAvoy's documentary film explores Japan's unknown ...

Japanese journalist Shiori Ito's debut documentary "Black Box Diaries" is not only one of the most acclaimed films of the year, but also a high point in Japanese cinema. Nominated for Best Documentary ...

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Filipino-born Aaron Garcia is a one-man show. The solo documentarian says a trip to Japan in 2017 inspired him to capture the ...

The latest issue of the highly recommended Japan or Die Newsletter has review of Ramen Heads (2017), a documentary about Japan's dedicated ramen culture. The documentary focuses on Osamu Tomita, whose ...

Nakamura, affectionately known as “Kaka Murad” in Afghanistan, was posthumously awarded honorary citizenship by the Afghanistan government in the year of his death. He was killed on December 4, 2019, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The mayor of a Japanese town which conducts an annual dolphin hunt protested on Monday against the Academy Award given to "The Cove," a documentary film about the grisly slaughter.

Before he was gunned down in Afghanistan in 2019 at the age of 73, Dr. Tetsu Nakamura had made up his mind to go to places ...

The practice was made famous in the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove." Dolphin hunting season has commenced in the small village of Taiji, Japan, with a quota to kill more than 1,400 dolphins ...