Last month, the Gifu-based Italian film critic Matteo Boscarol put out a call for critics and fans of Japanese documentaries to put tog...

There was a fair bit of brouhaha this year surrounding the fact that for the first time in its 30-year history, no films by Japanese ...

After Hiroshima 2014, I jumped on the Shinkansen to Kyoto to meet up with my family and some of the researchers headed to the Sa...

2013 was a wonderful year for feature-length animation in Japan.  Studio Ghibli released new films from their great masters Hayao Miya...

I cannot hear the lyrical melody of Rossini’s Ranz des Vaches (Call to the Dairy Cows) from William Tell (1829) without bursting in...

Since moving to the Hessian countryside from Tokyo in 2007, my German husband and I have been amused every autumn to see the Hokkai...

My husband and I were recently in Celle in northern Germany and came across this display window from a furniture store called Goldber...

Hokkaido holds a special place in my heart because I met my husband in Sapporo during my year teaching at an eikawa many moons ago.  I ...