Long Arm Of Fear

It’s taken a while for this 2012 to come out in an English translation, but it was worth the wait for readers of Japanese crime fiction (Keigo Higashino is already a ...

'The Villainess' To Open New York Asian Film Festival

The US premiere of Jung Byung-gil’s revenge thriller and recent Cannes Midnight screening The Villainess will close the 16th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), set...

147 Films From 45 Countries To Screen At KASHISH 2017

Delegate Registrations open for South Asia's biggest LGBTQ film festival

South Asia's biggest and India's only main...

Rules Of Memory 'Beautifully' Written

What really happens when we make and store memories has been unravelled in a discovery that surprised even the scientists who made it. The US and Japanese team found that t...

Japan kills More Than 300 Whales In Annual Antarctic Hunt

Whaling fleet returns to port after slaughtering hundreds of minke whales, in defiance of moratorium on hunting and global criticism A Japanese whaling fleet returned to po...

Japan’s Gender-Bending History

I’m an anthropologist who grew up in Japan and has lived there, off and on, for 22 years. Yet every visit to Tokyo’s Harajuku District still surprises me. In th...

You’re Looking At The World’s First Artificial Honeybee

Tiny drones may help pollinate crops when dwindling honeybees aren’t enough. In a honeybee colony, normally it's the female worker bees that go out, gather pollen, an...

You’re Looking At The World’s First Artificial Honeybee

Tiny drones may help pollinate crops when dwindling honeybees aren’t enough. In a honeybee colony, normally it's the female worker bees that go out, gather pollen, an...

Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Radiation At Highest Level Since 2011 Meltdown

Radiation levels inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station are at their highest since the plant suffered a triple meltdown almost six years ag...