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Accused assassin of Japan’s Shinzo Abe confesses
Tetsuya Yamagami, the man accused of assassinating Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, confessed to the killing as his murder trial began Tuesday in Nara, western Japan. The 45-year-old told the court, “It is all true. There is no doubt that I have done all this,” after…
· Ryan General
Rina Sawayama criticizes Sabrina Carpenter performance for mishandling Japanese culture
Japanese British artist Rina Sawayama has accused “Saturday Night Live” of mishandling Japanese cultural symbols in Sabrina Carpenter’s Oct. 18 performance of “Nobody’s Son.” The segment featured dancers in karate-style uniforms and shoes stepping on what appeared to be tatami…
· Ryan General
Historian races to record fading memories of Japanese Americans at Topaz camp
As the number of surviving Japanese American World War II internees declines, oral historian Diana Tsuchida is intensifying her efforts to record the final first-hand accounts from families connected to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Delta, Utah. Through her oral history…
· Carl Samson
Japan elects its 1st woman prime minister — but will it advance gender equality?
Sanae Takaichi has become Japan’s first woman prime minister since the country established its modern parliamentary system 140 years ago, yet her ultraconservative ideology has left questions whether this milestone will translate into meaningful progress for women and the…
· Ryan General
Japanese American descendants bring baseball back to Manzanar incarceration camp
When baseball returned to Manzanar last year after more than eight decades, descendants of incarcerated Japanese Americans took the field on the same desert ground where their families once played during World War II. This year’s public doubleheader at California’s Manzanar…
· Ryan General
Japanese American ‘Lady and the Tramp’ animator given lifetime achievement award
Veteran animator Willie Ito, who was incarcerated as a child at Utah’s Topaz War Relocation Center during World War II, has been honored with the lifetime achievement award from the Spark Animation Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia. The recognition, presented last month,…
· Ryan General
Japan warns OpenAI over AI-generated anime rip-offs
The Japanese government has instructed OpenAI to prevent copyright violations after its Sora 2 video-generation tool produced clips imitating well-known anime. Minister of State for Intellectual Property Minoru Kiuchi announced the directive on Oct. 10, stating that anime and…
· Ryan General
Japanese scientist awarded Nobel Prize for immune tolerance discovery
Japanese immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi was named one of three laureates for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. He shares the recognition with U.S. scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell for discovering how specialized immune cells, known as regulatory T…
· Ryan General
Japan to confirm its 1st woman leader
Japan is set to appoint its first female prime minister after Sanae Takaichi won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leadership election in Tokyo over the weekend. The 64-year-old conservative lawmaker defeated Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff vote, earning 185 votes to 156.…
· Carl Samson
Japan says its recognition of Palestinian state a matter of ‘when’
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba conveyed this week that recognizing Palestine as a state is “not a matter of ‘if,’ but of ‘when,’” marking the strongest signal yet from Tokyo on Palestinian statehood amid growing international pressure on the Trump administration’s Middle…
· Ryan General
Racehorse who never won a race but won Japan’s heart dies at 29
Haru Urara, the Japanese racehorse who became a national symbol of endurance after finishing winless in all 113 of her races, died on Sept. 9 at age 29 at a farm in Chiba Prefecture. She completed her only recorded victory in a 2019 time trial event held years after her…
· Carl Samson
Koreans outnumbered Japanese Americans at Hawaii incarceration camp, research reveals
A University of Hawaii oral history initiative is spotlighting how Korean prisoners of war vastly outnumbered Japanese Americans at the Honouliuli Internment Camp during World War II — about 2,700 Koreans compared to 400 Japanese Americans. Shocking discovery: The Center for…
· Carl Samson
Japan auto tariffs cut down to 15%
American consumers will see reduced costs for Japanese vehicles under a new trade agreement that cuts import tariffs from 27.5% to 15% on automobiles. An executive order signed by President Donald Trump Thursday implements the July framework deal, with automotive tariff…
· Ryan General
Japan’s Suntory CEO steps down amid THC supplement investigation
Takeshi Niinami resigned as CEO of Japanese beverage maker Suntory on Monday after police launched an investigation into his purchase of a supplement suspected of containing THC. The psychoactive compound in cannabis is banned under Japanese law, and authorities searched his…
· Ryan General
Eric Trump gets tossed from sumo ring in Japan
Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump, was hoisted and spun out of a sumo ring by a grand champion in Tokyo on Sept. 1, in a staged stunt that coincided with his trip for a shareholder meeting of Metaplanet, the Japanese cryptocurrency firm he advises. That same day, the…
· Carl Samson
New memorial honors Japanese Americans imprisoned in North Dakota
A monument recognizing Japanese Americans held at a former incarceration site in Bismarck, North Dakota, will be dedicated at the local United Tribes Technical College on Friday. About the site: The college sits on the former Fort Lincoln Internment Camp, which housed nearly…
· Carl Samson
Former Japanese American WWII camps fuel resistance to Trump’s historical censorship
Advocates and community members rallied at Manzanar and other locations nationwide in the past weeks, opposing Trump administration policies they say threaten to obscure difficult chapters of American history. “Day of Action”: Demonstrators showed up at national parks and other…
· Carl Samson
Former Japanese American WWII camp is now the country’s largest immigration detention center
The Trump administration has opened the country’s largest immigration detention center at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, a former military base that served as a temporary incarceration camp for Japanese American civilians during World War II. About the site: The $1.2 billion…
· Ryan General
Japan sees largest population drop in history as births fall to record low
The world’s fourth-largest economy is facing its most severe demographic crisis yet. Japan’s population fell by more than 908,000 people in 2024, the largest annual decline since records began in 1968, bringing the total to about 120.65 million. Record decline
· Carl Samson
Mural honoring Japanese Americans vandalized again in Seattle’s Chinatown
A mural honoring Japanese American history in Nihonmachi Alley of Seattle’s Chinatown-International District was vandalized with spray paint last weekend, marking the second attack on the artwork this year. What happened: The vandalism, which involved silver spray paint…
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Bandai Namco Holdings
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Capcom
Capcom is a good read on how long-running game worlds keep producing sales, streams, and fandom years after launch.
Company · Japan · TYO:4751
CyberAgent
CyberAgent runs ABEMA streaming and Cygames' hits like Uma Musume and Granblue Fantasy — a media-and-games force in Japanese pop culture.
Company · Japan · TYO:9983
Fast Retailing
Fast Retailing matters because Uniqlo is an everyday consumer habit, not just a stock story.
Company · Japan · TYO:9468
Kadokawa
Kadokawa ties publishing, anime adaptation, games, and fandom discovery into one listed media company.
Company · Japan · TYO:2801
Kikkoman
Kikkoman is how Japanese flavor went global — the soy sauce that became a default condiment on Western tables and made 'umami' a kitchen word.
Company · Japan · TYO:9766
Konami Group
Konami sits on a vault of iconic IP — Yu-Gi-Oh cards, Metal Gear, Silent Hill — plus a huge trading-card and mobile business.
Company · Japan · TYO:7974
Nintendo
Nintendo turns beloved game worlds into hardware, software, parks, merch, and repeat family spending.