In the heart of the Japanese mountains, the villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama are home to treasures of traditional ...

The store will be split into 10 department shops to showcase the different Bandai Namco brands. It will offer collectibles, ...

As a ferry with decorative taiko drums on its hull eases into the port of Iojima, a tiny island in southwestern Japan, a ...

Weekly corrects story on Fuji TV official's role in TV host scandal ...

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of ...

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ICHINONO - Riding his tricycle with cheerful abandon, Kuranosuke Kato is the only child in his tiny, depopulated Japanese village overrun by life-sized puppets. The two-year-old was the first baby ...

The ancient tradition of “murahachibu,” ostracizing community members as punishment, gets a contemporary twist in Hideo Jojo’s slow-burn thriller.

Within the dichotomy of plan versus reality the film portrays Ogatamura Big Lagoon Village that was once planned within a huge reclamation project as a model farming village to grant food security ...

A Bandai Namco Cross Store is coming to New York next month and will sell figures, games like One Piece Card Game, and other ...