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Tokyo International Film Festival 2015, Terminal And Three Love Stories

The Tokyo International Film Festival has more in common with its mega-corporate Coca-Cola sponsor than it might like to think, as both are in the business of churning out ...

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How A Pair Of Old Mines Helped Win A Nobel Prize In Physics

According to the Nobel prize committee, “the discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the univ...

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Sony VR Headset Finally Has A Name

TIME TO STOP saying “Project Morpheus” and start saying “PlayStation VR.” Sony announced at its Tokyo Game Show press conference today that it has s...

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Historic Floods in Japan Force More Than 100,000 People From Their Homes

The rain came as a result of tropical storm Etau, which battered Japan's main island of Honshu and caused 20 inches of rain in some areas. The rainfall levels were twice Se...

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Tokyo Film Festival To Showcase ‘Mobile Suit Gundam’

Japan’s genre-spawning robot animation franchise Mobile Suit Gundam will be given a special showcase at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, organizer...

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Short Shorts Film Festival To Be Held June 4-14

TOKYO Cinema fans who want to see as many works as possible in a limited time, fans of the short form or just people with short attention spans will want to check out the S...

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Diverse, not different

We live in a world spanning myriad landscapes that host a multitude of cultures within their boundaries. It is these borders that define and divide us. And it is often in t...

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NO BLING, PLEASE

A television channel scan threw up an emerging change of dress code for women. The women characters ? mothers, mothers-in-law, bahus, etc. -- are wearing trendy outfits. Lo...

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The Subjectivity Of Madness

“Those who were dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music” is a quote often attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, although is the sub...

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Rare outbreak in Tokyo as WHO warns of spread of dengue fever

As the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of the potential increase of dengue fever and other climate-sensitive illnesses, Japan saw an almost-seven decade streak of be...

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