Total box office revenues in Japan reached a record high of 274.45 billion yen in 2025, rising 32.6 percent from the previous year on the back of domestic blockbusters, an industry association said ...

Japan’s animation industry grew by 14.8% to hit record revenues of $25BN (JPY3.8TR) in 2024, with much of the increase coming from overseas markets, according to a report presented by the Association ...

Los Angeles became a crossroads for Japan’s fast-growing global music scene as CEIPA and the TOYOTA GROUP’s “MUSIC WAY PROJECT” brought ennichi ’25 to the city in early December. Across two days — an ...

Online piracy of Japanese entertainment caused an estimated 5.7 trillion yen in revenue loss in 2025, a survey by a Tokyo-based watchdog showed, nearly tripling from about 2 trillion yen in the ...

Japan’s Biggest Bank Joins K2 Pictures’ Indie Film Fund (Exclusive) MUFG Bank’s multimillion-dollar investment in Tokyo’s K2 Pictures — unveiled at Cannes with support from auteurs like Hirokazu ...

SM Entertainment Japan’s first all-Japanese girl group GPP, set for an early 2026 debut, signals a deliberate strategy shift that will leverage the company’s decades of experience and fanbase in the ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese and South Korean leaders agreed to deepen cooperation between their countries before they let loose with their own surprise cultural exchange in a surprise jam session ...

Gacha & Catch, a pop-up Japanese crane game store, is opening in the Santa Monica Promenade in Santa Monica on Nov. 22, 2025. The joint project between Japan Entertainment One Inc., TOMY Company, Ltd.