What makes a Japanese person Japanese? Is it the blood that runs through their veins? A parent they were born to? The country they grew up in? Is it how they look? How they act? How they speak? Their ...

A documentary film that records the daily lives of children at a Japanese public elementary school has lessons for both ...

A Japanese film crew has visited the island as part of a knitting documentary which includes the Guernsey jumper. Nippon Hoso ...

Inset: a scene from the documentary film. Credit: Andreas Hartmann and Arata Mori Every year in Japan, thousands of people disappear voluntarily to start a new life. 'Johatsu' means to evaporate ...

When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamada, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 ...

The Oscar-nominated documentary Black Box Diaries, by Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, is a first-person account of her quest ...

“Black Box Diaries”, her film chronicling the episode, became the first Japanese documentary to be nominated for an Oscar last month (though there is no release date for it in Japan). Her case ...

Visitors to the newly-opened Lounge may have spotted a slightly sullen Japanese film crew last month. In town to film a ...

Some 200 guernsey-wearers gathered in Town yesterday afternoon to feature in a Japanese documentary that will include the ...

A Japanese film crew has visited the island as part of a knitting documentary which includes the Guernsey jumper. Nippon Hoso Kyokai or NHK, which is Japan's publicly funded broadcaster ...