Review: Old Globe’s ‘Empty Ride’ an intriguing but overstuffed ghost story
The world premiere play by Keiko Green is about a young woman haunted by the ghosts who ride in her taxi in post-2011-tsunami ...
Play will examine haunted tales from Japan’s 2011 tsunami
Those stories originated in Japan, where some taxi drivers in the city of Ishinomaki reported encountering “ghost passengers” ...
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Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...
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Ghost World (Cert 15)
and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), so cooled off by the postgraduate world of midtown America, the stripmalls of McDonald's and Starbucks, that they take refuge in their own world. Terry Zwigoff ...
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Japan moves up to 118th in the world for gender equality
Japan placed 118th among 146 countries in terms of gender equality in 2024, an improvement from the previous year’s rank of 125th but still the lowest among Group of Seven nations. The World ...
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Ghosts, disasters and returning home in 'Empty Ride'
Playwright Keiko Green's "Empty Ride" follows the story of a woman who returns home to a small town in Japan, after the 2011 ...
Miike Takashi Talks Japanese Horror, Extreme Violence, Audience Reactions: Movie Theaters Offered Sick Bags to Audience Members
Miike Takashi and producer Misako Saka on women in Japanese film industry, 'cheap' horror budgets and not being 'conscious' of audiences.
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President Trump’s moves to pause refugee resettlement, freeze foreign aid and suspend funds to promote democracy have added more chaos to one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises.
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EDITORIAL: Turbulent times call for a world order not fixated on Trump’s U.S.
It is time for all nations, regardless of size or power, including Japan and those in Europe, to collaborate and embrace their shared responsibility in striving for a world governed by rules ...
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State of the World from NPR
State of the World was previously State of Ukraine. You'll continue to hear Ukraine coverage here, along with other international stories. Support NPR's reporting by subscribing to State of the ...
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I took my kids to Japan and made mistakes. Here’s what I learnt
not to mention kid-focused museums and world-renowned temples and shrines. We basically don’t visit any of them. The reason is simple: Japan itself is an attraction, particularly for kids.
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Where in the World?
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