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MusicJ-pop megastar Hikaru Utada on teen fame, discrimination, and grief

MusicCHAI’s jubilant quarantine record is ‘an album for all of us’

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Film & TVStudio Ghibli’s Spirited Away will be turned into a stage play

Film & TVHow films about filmmaking are revolutionising Japanese cinema

Film & TVAn introduction to Yoshihiro Nishimura, the whacky king of body horror

Art & PhotographyThese provocative portraits capture Madonna on her ascent to superstardom

Life & CultureMeet the breakdancers gunning for the 2024 Paris Olympics

Film & TVHow Japan’s 90s teen delinquency crisis inspired a wave of killer movies

PoliticsMeet Jo Baiden: Japanese mayor goes viral after Joe Biden’s US election win

FashionSupreme links up with ‘The Godfather of Japanese Erotica’ for new collab

Film & TVWatch Hayao Miyazaki sketch cute characters for the Studio Ghibli Museum

Life & CultureA Japanese zombie coffin experience wants to relieve your COVID-19 stress

Film & TVThe Studio Ghibli theme park confirms its 2022 opening date

Film & TVA Princess Mononoke-inspired campsite is opening in Japan

Film & TVWerner Herzog on fact and fiction in Japan’s rent-a-family business

Life & CultureA Japanese condom brand has made a weird AF anime about safe sex

MusicWatch the original Cowboy Bebop band virtually perform theme song ‘Tank’

Film & TVA guide to Japanese cyberpunk cinema with three of its visionary directors

Art & PhotographyJapanese femdom artist Namio Harukawa has passed away

Science & TechStudio Ghibli is giving away free Zoom backgrounds

Film & TVInside the cyberpunk world of Taiwanese filmmaker Yuen Hsieh

Film & TVWatch the trailer for Werner Herzog’s doc on Japan’s rent-a-family business

Film & TVThe Studio Ghibli museum has closed amid coronavirus fears