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An argument over what appears to be an unusual fruit produces unexpected results.

In Kitakyushu, ex-yakuza Nakamoto and fellow former inmates learn how to make udon noodles and wait on customers in order to open an udon shop.

An anime made entirely in sumi-e following a child fox spirit and his morphing ability for haunting but he ends up getting scared himself.

"Japanese food" was registered as an intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO in December 2013. "Miso," "soy sauce," "mirin," which determine the...

Documentary about the "lover of th forest and the sea", Shigeatsu Htakeyama, who is an oyster farmer in the Tsunami region of 2011.

Samurai swords have served as lethal weapons and as revered objects in Japan. But a sword's true beauty can be only revealed by the polishers who...

Where temperatures fall so low that even the trees can freeze and explode, the flora and fauna of a certain forest in Japan's northernmost island of...

Amidst an economic slowdown, China's freelance truck drivers risk their very lives to earn money traversing the road to Tibet, feared as the most...

The sites and sounds at the 800-year-old Horenji Temple in Kyoto — electro music, English, takoyaki, a kaleidoscopic elephant — would...

Documentary featuring NHK archive footage from Tokyo 1945-1980.