Total ticket sales revenue jumped 32 percent to a record 274.45 billion yen ($1.79 billion) as local megahits drove the world’s third-largest film market past its prior pre-pandemic peak.

Part 1:” anchored a banner year for Japan’s theatrical market in 2025, helping push total box office receipts to a record ...

Ranbir Kapoor and Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal was a massive blockbuster. It garnered a whopping 910.72 crore gross worldwide, emerging as the highest-grossing adult film in history (title now stolen ...

"Change Street" marked a meaningful start. Change Street (Change Street, directed by Oh Jun-seong), a large-scale project commemorating the 60th anniversary of Korea-Japan normalization of diplomatic ...

A Japanese #MeToo campaigner’s documentary premiered in her homeland on Friday after months of delays, with one audience member saying she hoped it triggered a change in society. Shiori Ito won a ...

Japan’s stock market is witnessing a record wave of large private transactions known as block trades, stemming from companies reducing cross-shareholdings to improve corporate governance. Such deals ...

The Disney animated sequel Zootopia 2 has been making headlines for its impressive box office performance. The movie opened in theaters in Japan on Friday and has recorded a fantastic opening day, ...

A Chinese man who placed joss paper into a fortune-drawing money collection box at Japan’s Sensoji Temple has sparked online outrage and criticism of bad tourist behaviour. A video that circulated on ...

Kokuho, Japan’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards, has shattered a two-decade-old box office benchmark, becoming the highest-grossing domestic ...

Beijing has increased its pushback against Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Taiwan comments. Concerts with Japanese artists in Beijing have been canceled or postponed, sometimes with little ...

The creative talks about what it means to be a woman working in Japan's music industry today & the hopes she carries for the next generation. By Billboard Japan Billboard Japan‘s Women in Music ...