Dec 03, 2024 (Netflix Anime) - Strange occurrences are happening in the town of Kurouzu-cho... Eyes are rolling, tongues are coiling, bodies twist unnaturally. Can anyone escape the curse of the spirals?
The anime adaptation of Junji Ito's renowned horror masterpiece, UZUMAKI: Animated TV Series, is coming exclusively to Netflix in Asia on December 20. Kirie's normal life with her boyfriend Shuichi takes a terrifying turn as a supernatural spiral curse begins affecting everyone in their town.
A tropical depression east of Guam and Saipan is expected to strengthen into a typhoon within 12 hours and approach Japan during the Silver Week holiday period, while a lingering autumn rain front could bring heavy rainfall across a wide area even far from the storm's eventual path.
Japan's Halloween Jumbo Lottery went on sale nationwide on September 16, offering a combined top payout of 400 million yen for the first prize and its adjacent-number prizes.
A new top-tier "Supreme Class" offering fully private compartments above the level of Green Car service will debut on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen on October 1, with passengers able to experience the new seating at a demonstration booth at Shin-Osaka Station.
A Japan Air Self-Defense Force Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft went missing over international waters about 50 kilometers north of Tottori Prefecture on September 15, with floating debris and oil later found in the area where communications were lost.
GO, Waymo and Nihon Kotsu said they aim to launch Japan's first commercial fully driverless taxi service in Tokyo during 2027, using Level 4 autonomous vehicles that can operate without a driver on board under specified conditions.
Tsunaki Mihara, a guitarist who rose to fame in the 1960s with the Group Sounds band Jackey Yoshikawa and His Blue Comets and remained active in music for decades, died of kidney cancer at a Tokyo hospital at 9:02 a.m. on September 11. He was 80.
Switching from an iPhone to an Android device, or playing on both at different times, turns something as simple as buying PokéCoins into a surprisingly confusing errand.
In this video, we cover the performances taking place this month at the Kabuki-za theatre in Tokyo!
Japanese pop culture has had fans around the world for decades, but social media has completely changed the way people discover it.
Hirokazu Koreeda's "Look Back" received more than 12 minutes of applause following its official screening at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Italy.
Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto's film Nelson, Did You Kill Anyone?, which is competing for the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in Italy, received a standing ovation lasting about eight minutes following its official screening on September 4.
In this video, we cover the main acting traditions or kata for the scene Kumagai Jin'ya ("Kumagai's Battle Camp") in the history drama Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki ("Chronicle of the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani").
French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed have agreed on plans to build three theme parks near Paris, including one based on the popular Japanese anime Dragon Ball, with total construction costs expected to reach about 6 billion euros, or roughly 1 trillion yen.
