Japan’s animation industry grew by 14.8% to hit record revenues of $25BN (JPY3.8TR) in 2024, with much of the increase coming from overseas markets, according to a report presented by the Association ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It only takes seconds of an Ado performance to grasp the hold the Japanese singer has over her adoring fans in the crowd. The ...

Sony says its profit surged 11% in the last quarter on healthy global sales. The Japanese entertainment and electronics ...

TIFFCOM 2025 hosted 322 exhibiting companies, up from 283 in 2024, with booths nearly sold out by early July as CEO Shiina Yasushi emphasized the market’s transformation from a purely sales-driven ...

Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group has entered into a licensing agreement with Japan’s Toho-Towa Group which will see the latter’s Towa Pictures subsidiary handle theatrical distribution of the Warner ...

SM Entertainment Japan’s first all-Japanese girl group GPP, set for an early 2026 debut, signals a deliberate strategy shift that will leverage the company’s decades of experience and fanbase in the ...

For 40 years, Tetsu Fujimura has quietly steered a shift in global entertainment, from importing Hollywood titles to exporting Japanese anime and game IP — a transition he says was fueled by Netflix ...

Gacha & Catch, a pop-up Japanese crane game store, is opening in the Santa Monica Promenade in Santa Monica on Nov. 22, 2025. The joint project between Japan Entertainment One Inc., TOMY Company, Ltd.

Beijing is curbing Japanese movies, music and art as it seeks to punish Tokyo for its support of Taiwan. By Javier C. Hernández and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo A singer was forced offstage in the ...

Lily Chen was beyond thrilled to see the Japanese singer she’s been a fan of for two decades, waiting outside with a crowd to enter the Beijing venue on a windy, chilly Wednesday night. The concert ...

The 38th Tokyo International Film Festival and its industry market TIFFCOM unfolded under clearer skies than last year’s typhoon-soaked edition, and the mood matched the weather. From Oct. 27 to Nov.