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 ...

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 Kyokai or NHK, which is Japan's publicly funded broadcaster, has brought ...

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

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

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

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 ...

This series features individuals involved in the makings of broadcast programs in the pioneering days of TV documentaries in Japan. The authors delve into their personalities and productions as ...

We overseas Chinese hope our Japanese friends and people around the world can really know about the tragedy," Lin Boyao, the protagonist of a documentary recently previewed in Japan's Kobe said at ...

She wrote a memoir about the trauma, which some credit with starting Japan's #MeToo movement, and worked on her documentary, pursuing legal cases against Yamaguchi for much of that intervening period.