TOKYO — “Heroine Shikkaku” (“No Longer Heroine”), climbed atop the Japanese box office this weekend in its second week of release. Based on a best-selling comic by Momoko Koda about the love troubles ...

Warner Brothers Japan’s ad campaign for the new "Wonder Woman" movie has sparked controversy on the internet in Japan. Having watched the TV production of "Wonder Woman" starring Lynda Carter in the U ...

Digressing. Denfamico Gamer ran a big poll quizzing Japanese gamers on their favourite heroines in the medium. The results aren't particularly surprising, but they paint a helpful picture of where ...

Indo-Japan collaborative film project 'Love in Tokyo', a cross-culture romance, themed on relationship transcending linguistic barrier, will have an Indian male protagonist and a Japanese heroine. The ...

Dubbed Japan’s “rock heroine”, LiSA (real name Risa Oribe) was recently in town for her second solo concert in Singapore, LiVE is Smile Always, on 21 July during her Asian tour. When we asked her ...

Yamagata Prefecture’s impressive Sankyo Rice warehouses and mighty Mogami River set the scene for the highly popular 1980s Japanese TV drama and animated movie "Oshin," about a poor girl turned ...

The otome game reimagining and alternate take on the Wizard of Oz called Over Requiemz will appear on the Nintendo Switch ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Japanese nerd heroine, Shoko Nakagawa, loves Pokémon. And for good reason. Pocket Monsters gave her a reason to live. In the West, when someone says ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Naomi Osaka is hogging the headlines for all the right reasons in her native land after she became the first Japanese player to reach a Grand Slam singles final, with one major ...

Japan are through to the semi-finals of the Women's World Cup following a last-gasp victory over Australia. Mana Iwabuchi scored the only goal of the game as the tournament holders edged their ...

A new smartphone game called BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War was announced in August 2017 and Arc System Works updated the game’s teaser site with a 2018 release window and a look at a new heroine.