Japan director fights to get out of father's shadow
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Fans of Japan's distinctive style of  full-length animated films gave a standing ovation at this  year's Venice Film Festival to the latest movie from Japan's  famed Studio Ghibli.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is staking his job on Japan's continued support of the coalition forces in Afghanistan. But it's matters closer to home that threaten him most
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Suffering a crisis of confidence these days about its ability to compete with its emerging Asian rivals, Japan is in the midst of a growing craze for Indian education.
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Masumi Koda, father of Shosei Koda, identified as the Japanese man taken hostage and threatened to be beheaded by al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq, speaks to reporters with his weeping wife Setsuko outside their home in Nogata, southern Japan October 27
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Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee grew up in Taiwan and started his career there. Now he wants to give back to its movie industry.
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There's no escaping Norio Minorikawa on Japanese TV. He hosts news shows, talk shows, wildlife shows &#151; even his country's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
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Japan's Takeshi Kitano pokes fun at himself, fellow film-makers and the cinema industry in his latest work, the surreal tale of a director on a quest to shoot the ultimate movie that everyone will love.
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Following the success of The Ring and, more recently, The Grudge, a slew of Hollywood remakes of Japanese horror movies are in the pipeline. But audiences beware: These are not your typical monster-in-the-closet scary movies.
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Hiromasa Murakami went to see Clint  Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" to find out if an American  could tell the Japanese side of a battle that became a symbol  of U.S. patriotism, but for Japan was a bitter memory of  defeat.
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Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whisked to a hospital a day after he resigned for exhaustion and psychological anguish, is the latest high-profile figure to seek treatment over work-related duress in a nation known for its stressed-out laborers.
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Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a prolific and sui generis talent from Japan, this quietly creepy film contains a hint of politics and a wealth of shivers.
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SANMU, Japan  - A veteran cinematographer of   dozens of "Godzilla" movies, Kenichi Eguchi traded his camera   for a tractor two years ago to begin farming a couple of hours   away from Tokyo, his long time home.
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As his defense minister resigns over his comments on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of creating a more muscular Japan looks lost
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LAWRENCE, Kan. - He's attacked other monsters and terrorized Japan for decades. Now Godzilla is confronting academics who want to wrestle with his legacy.
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Japan's former foreign minister acknowledged Sunday he faced probable defeat in the race to replace ailing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but said he would stay in the running for the sake of staging an open election.
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By Gardner Chris  Tomoko Ishijima held on to her dream of working on a dairy farm when a Japanese farmer hired another worker instead of her.
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Japan&#39;s Olympic hammer-throw champion Koji Murofushi, one of Asia&#39;s few medal hopefuls, barely qualified for the final at the world championships here Saturday.