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 ...

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

There is a documentary about Park Yoo-chun's story. Tokyo MX, a Japanese terrestrial broadcaster, organized Park Yoo-chun's ...

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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, ...

Shiori Ito’s Black Box Diaries may have lost to No Other Land at the Oscars, but both the filmmaker and her film have long been making waves in Japan. Black Box Diaries, nominated for best documentary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...