An installation view of “Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami” at Gagosian in Grosvenor Hill, London. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian “Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami ...

Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Japan and the Koreas. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief. In many respects ...

TOKYO, Jan 27 — The chairman and president of Japan’s Fuji Television resigned today, weeks after a celebrity presenter and former pop star was accused of sexual assault. Criticism has mounted from ...

Scientists in Japan who noticed a drastic shift in glass eel migration patterns sounded the alarm on an underlying issue. As reported by The Japan Times earlier this month, researchers from the Japan ...

As the daughter of Japanese pop stars and a beauty ambassador for fashion houses Bulgari and Chanel, Japanese starlet Koki is used to being in the public eye in her home country. However ...

Originally from Kumamoto, Japan, Hayama studied at the Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design ... Mining the legacy of Andy Warhol and other Pop artists, Hayama’s work blurs not ...

Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai, who was a member of the former pop group SMAP, said Thursday he has retired from show business following alleged sexual misconduct that led broadcasters to suspend ...

TOKYO – One of Japan’s biggest pop stars and best-known television hosts, Masahiro Nakai, announced his retirement on Jan 23 over sexual misconduct allegations, reports said, in the latest ...

Nakai lost several of his shows on Japanese TV this month following media ... a member of the J-Pop sensation SMAP, met the woman in 2023. The network denied those allegations, but said last ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency shows Masahiro Nakai, one of Japanese pop group SMAP ...

Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan’s top TV hosts and a former pop star in the band SMAP, announced today that he was retiring to take responsibility over sexual assault allegations. Weekly magazine ...

The 45-year-old star’s patisserie Once Upon A Time has returned to the country ahead of Valentine’s season for a slew of pop-ups, a year after she launched her first Japan pop-up at the Amour du ...