TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Masato Harada, a Japanese director known for films such as "Chronicle of My Mother" and "Climber's High" ...

China-Japan relations have plunged to a new low after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi warned that a Chinese move ...

The Phoenician Scheme returns Wes Anderson to the straightforward pleasures of the caper movie. He talks about writing the film for its star, Benicio del Toro, his fascination with charismatic, ...

Helen L. Coleman, 90, the Seattle culinary legend known as “Ms. Helen” to her legions of fans — died Saturday, Nov. 29. Starting in 1970, she nourished the city at a series of restaurants with her ...

From Pope Francis to Charlie Kirk, many deaths in 2025 had a wide impact - The world lost influential people in 2025, and ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 21: In 1672, Benjamin Schmolck, German Lutheran clergyman and prolific hymn writer, was born. Though a busy pastor, he found time to pen 900 hymns, the best remembered ...

Japanese journalist Shiori Ito's documentary, “Black Box Diaries,” has finally premiered in Japan after facing legal hurdles.

Also: Murray Hill’s holiday variety show, Kara Young and Nicholas Braun in “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” James L. Brooks’s ...

You can see the large white seabirds dancing, preening, feeding and raising young—though the live feed might show a dark side ...

More brutal fights await humanity as rounds 7, 8 and 9 will take place in the third season of Record of Ragnarok. On the ...