India's patent civilisational depth and vivid culturality have been described as its latent (and underutilized) soft power.

Koji Shirashi's movies includes Occult, Shirome, and Cult. His first film is must-watch Japanese found-footage horror.

Directed by Lee Sang-il and selected as Japan’s 2026 Oscar submission for best international feature, the three-hour, ...

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It’s been a difficult year for the people who create video games, with layoffs persisting while the tech industry tries to ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

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A historian’s hunch about what might lie hidden within the walls of a Japanese church in Salt Lake City led congregants to uncover a century-old time capsule recalling the city's once ...

Post World War II, architects like Kenzo Tange pioneered a new blend of tradition with modernism, sparking the influential Metabolist movement of the 1960s that imagined cities as organic, adaptable ...

Noh was once the entertainment of medieval warriors. Today, remote Sado Islanders embrace one of the world’s oldest surviving types of drama. Shinobu Kamiyama, center, playing the tormented ghost of a ...

TOKYO (AP) — A three-hour film about the esoteric world of Kabuki is defying the odds at the Japanese box office, with tickets selling out at some cinemas. “Kokuho,” which means “national treasure,” ...

A series of World War II dramas about China’s fight against Japan is drawing audiences to their feet, and, in some cases, to tears. Some say it helps deflect public discontent. By Lily Kuo Reporting ...