With its challenge to Japan’s conventional ideals of feminine beauty, the bar, which opened in mid-2020, draws about 100 customers on average each day, the majority of them foreign tourists, and has ...

Tomoaki “Nasubi” Hamatsu wanted to be a famous comedian — but he did not want to become an international laughingstock. Yet that’s exactly what happened when he unwittingly appeared naked for weeks on ...

New York — In January 1998, an aspiring Japanese comedian named Tomoaki Hamatsu but better known as Nasubi — or “eggplant,” because of his long face — was chosen to star in “Susunu! Denpa Shōnen,” a ...

Shogun' producer Eriko Miyagawa hopes that future seasons of the show will film in Japan, although production infrastructure remains a key challenge.

The convention of equating women’s thinness with beauty leads to malnutrition and other health problems, doctors and ...