Life in the dry season is no picnic—lions are anxiously waiting for the Great Migration and the feast it promises—but it ...

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It be your own people; that’s what Haitian-Japanese-American tennis champion Naomi Osaka—who proudly plays for Japan, her country of birth—found out yet again while winning her first Pan Pacific Open ...

Japan as a country has always been fascinating for its distinctive culture and traditions, not to mention the unique food dishes that have sent throngs of tourists clamoring for authentic Japanese ...

Japan's latest comedy export is coming to Fringe for the first time. Takashi was born and raised in Japan and has lived in Australia for five years. He's stuck in a chasm between Japanese and Western ...

Japanese comedy is a special thing. While some of it is a more familiar kind of stand-up or a type of “dumb and dumber” slapstick duet, much of it is far more off the wall than anything other ...

Ask Jun Imai, Japanese director of the bilingual group Tokyo Comedy Store, and he’ll tell you that there’s another key skill: listening. You can’t perform in a team if you aren’t attentive to everyone ...

Yuriko Kotani is in a league that very few other Japanese people have or would want to wade into: performing stand-up comedy in English. She's the only Japanese recipient of the BBC New Comedy Award ...

Yaso, a mysterious figure in a demonic red and blue mask, has transported Takahiro Ogata to a realm of pain. “You gamble with your life here!” Yaso shouts. Ogata, a young Japanese actor with a mop of ...