NEW YORK, Aug 26, 2025 (News On Japan) - A Japan-focused anime event in New York, the four-day showcase Anime NYC, drew more than 140,000 attendees and featured sales of anime merchandise, concerts, and crowds of fans posing for photos in costume.
About 1,000 companies exhibited at the event, which welcomed a record total of more than 140,000 visitors over four days.
Source: TBS
Large Typhoon No. 25 was moving north toward the Ogasawara Islands at 5 a.m. on September 19 and was forecast to pass near the Izu Islands and Kanto from September 20 through September 21, bringing the risk of torrential rain, violent winds and rough seas, with some areas expected to receive more than 300 millimeters of rain over 48 hours.
A black bear has been spotted near one of the most popular hiking trails on Mount Takao in western Tokyo, prompting authorities to urge visitors to take precautions ahead of the five-day Silver Week holiday and the approaching autumn foliage season.
Starbucks is considering selling a majority stake in its Japanese business, potentially valued at as much as $3 billion, or about 470 billion yen, as the U.S. coffee chain seeks to concentrate management resources on its struggling North American operations.
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.
Japan's oldest record company is turning to artificial intelligence to reshape one of the country's most traditional musical genres, unveiling an AI-generated enka singer as part of a new label combining the technology with the distinctive vocal style of Japanese ballads.
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").
