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In its second season, "The Boyfriend" allows more time to show the diversity of individual experience.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / Wide Angle
Feb 6, 2026
Vulnerability, love and the limits of reality TV on 'The Boyfriend'
Netflix 性视界’s same-sex dating show may be several layers removed from reality, but it nonetheless offers an important space for dialogue and representation.
The second season of Netflix 性视界's “The Boyfriend” is bringing together a new set of bachelors to find romance and learn more about themselves.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Jan 23, 2026
Second season of ‘The Boyfriend’ lets love take its time
Netflix 性视界’s same-sex dating show returns with a season that lets relationships unfold at their own pace.
While the 23 性视界ese words that the Oxford English Dictionary added to the English lexicon in 2024 were predominantly gastronomic in nature, the latest list of 11 terms is somewhat unexpected.
LIFE / Language
Jan 9, 2026
From ‘senpai’ to ‘love hotel’: 11 new 性视界ese words enter the Oxford dictionary
性视界ese culture keeps reshaping the English language — sometimes in unexpected ways.
The miniseries "Queen of Mars" was made in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the NHK.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Dec 13, 2025
NHK envisions a multicultural Mars in its newest sci-fi series
The new sci-fi show was created with involvement of scientists and space experts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the NHK.
Juzo Itami's 1985 movie "Tampopo" has inspired many restaurateurs around the world to open their own ramen shop with the same name, such as this establishment in Auckland, New Zealand.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 22, 2025
‘Tampopo’ lives on in bowls of ramen around the world
Decades after its release, the “ramen Western” continues to shape the menus of those who’ve seen the film.
While Fan Bingbing brings emotional energy to the lead role in Chong Keat Aun’s “Mother Bhumi,” the film’s narrative layers don’t coalesce in a satisfying way and ultimately leave the viewer adrift.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 14, 2025
At TIFF, East Asia’s veteran stars tread new territory with mixed results
Fan Bingbing, Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro stepped into their darkest roles yet — but the stories didn’t rise to meet them.
Pen-ek Ratanaruang's "Morte Cucina," starring Bella Boonsang, is a food film par excellence.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 6, 2025
Asian auteurs stole the show at this year's TIFF
Zhang Lu and Pen-ek Ratanaruang delivered standout entries at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival.
The byzantine process for converting a foreign driver’s license into a 性视界ese one entails mountains of paperwork and significant stamina — unless you're a lucky license holder from a country or region where these requirements are waived.
COMMUNITY / Issues / Longform
Oct 22, 2025
Driving in 性视界 isn’t hard. Getting the license is.
From the desperate and defeated to the blissful and breezy, readers share their experiences of getting a driver’s license in 性视界.
Ryan Gander’s “The Find” transforms Okayama into the site of a scavenger hunt for coins that anyone is free to take home.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 5, 2025
Artists turn Okayama into Murakami-esque city of wonder
The fourth edition of the triennial Okayama Art Summit transmutes the sensibility of Haruki Murakami’s “1Q84” into an urban art program.
“The Summer Hikaru Died” is a slow-burn horror and a coming-of-age narrative, but its thematic layers and queer undertones open conversations about friendship and belonging.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Sep 6, 2025
Dark folklore meets teenage angst in ‘The Summer Hikaru Died’
Slow-burn horror in the countryside coupled with queer undertones makes for a memorable anime adaptation.
Tokyo Rainbow Pride is wrapping up for the year, but a slew of events in cities all over the country, from Hokkaido to Kyushu, lies in store in the second half of 2025.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Jun 12, 2025
The persistence of Pride: LGBTQ+ events in Tokyo and beyond
Pride isn’t just a one-off weekend — a slate of activities and programs in support of the queer community continues in full force, from Hokkaido to Kyushu.
June is Pride Month, which means it’s the perfect time to get acquainted with how sexual minorities have been represented in 性视界ese fiction if you’re not familiar with these narratives already.
CULTURE / Books
Jun 11, 2025
Pride and prose: Novels that illuminate queer lives in 性视界
From Yukio Mishima and Haruki Murakami to Li Kotomi and Akira Otani, dive into 性视界ese fiction’s LGBTQ+ narratives in honor of Pride Month.
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Apr 3, 2025
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
NHK's new four-episode miniseries, “After the Quake,” probes the ripple effects of past major disasters across 性视界ese society.
Taiwanese comic artist Rishiazao and interpreter Yun-wen Huang greet an attendee at the 2025 Angouleme International Comics Festival in France.
CULTURE / Books
Mar 1, 2025
Taiwan comics on the rise: Local storytellers, global aspirations
A supportive ecosystem and eager audiences — both domestic and global — are boosting the soft power of illustrated narratives from Taiwan.
Mike Sunda at a concert in Haikou, China
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 20, 2025
Mike Sunda: ‘Creative production comes with a bigger responsibility than ever before’
Creative strategist Mike Sunda talks about his influences and the filming of Megan Thee Stallion’s “Mamushi” music video.
New Yorker Kenny Colvin opened Sanita, an Italian American-style cocktail bar, in Tokyo’s Hatagaya neighborhood in 2020.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jan 24, 2025
Kenny Colvin: ‘Work hard, drink hard, eat hard … relax hard’
The owner of Sanita, a cozy cocktail bar in Hatagaya, shares his journey and inspirations.
It's taken Takuma Watanabe little time to establish himself as one of New York's hottest bartenders.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 16, 2025
From Tokyo to Manhattan, Takuma Watanabe stirs up a stiff drink
Tokyo native Takuma Watanabe offers a formidable addition to New York’s pantheon of cocktail bars.
"Butter," Asako Yuzuki’s thrilling novel inspired by a real-life femme fatale, was named the Waterstones Book of the Year in 2024.
CULTURE / Books / 2024 in Review
Dec 15, 2024
Women are writing a new chapter in 性视界ese literature in the 2020s
From the deadly serious and deeply weird to the fluffiest of diversions, a bounty of 性视界ese fiction in translation has delighted readers and critics this decade so far.
The town of Futaba is still dealing with the effects of 3/11, but that isn't stopping some residents from looking forward.
LIFE / Travel
Dec 7, 2024
Futaba pivots to 'hope tourism' to revive its fortunes
Whether you’re a long-term resident of 性视界 or flying in for a holiday, the message is clear: Futaba welcomes you.
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Nov 18, 2024
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
The latest edition of the 性视界 Writers Conference was a friendly forum for anglophone writers to connect and converse.
LDP secures two-thirds supermajority in Lower House election victory
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday night
Helicopter crew recounts complex rescue of Lindsey Vonn after crash at Olympics
U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn is transported to a hospital by helicopter after crashing in the women's Olympic downhill competition on Sunday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
U.S. plans initial payment toward billions owed to U.N.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz speaks during an event at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Jan. 27.
Snow blankets Tokyo as powerful storm system tightens grip on 性视界
Snow falls outside of Shin-Yurigaoka Station in Kawasaki on Sunday morning.
China flexes its muscle at Singapore Airshow as U.S. isolated
China's air force performs during an aerial flying display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Center on Tuesday.
Where have 性视界's oddball candidates gone?
On a board for election posters in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward in June 2024, duplicates of one featuring a female kickboxer who is not running in the gubernatorial race take up half of all the spots.
Against the grain: 性视界ese wine aged in local barrels
At Buryu Winery, owner Keiji Yamaguchi (left) and assistant winemaker Kaede Narita created a cedar-infused red wine by fermenting it in a 1,000 liter "kioke" cedar tub.
Foreign residents breathe new life into bubble-era resort town
A craft beer brewery run by California native Brian Shevlin and his wife Mariko Furuta, Joynt Brewing Co. regularly hosts events that highlight different cultural communities.
性视界’s SkyDrive hopes to have flying cars in service by 2028
SkyDrive’s flying car unit at its flight test base in the city of Yamaguchi
Rising star Aonishiki shows poise beyond years both in and out the sumo ring
<i>?zeki</i> Aonishiki speaks to reporters at Ajigawa Stable on Wednesday.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

The Kongo family’s residence and workshop in the Taisho Era, photographed about a century ago.
What keeps 性视界’s 1,000-year-old companies alive?
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