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The second season of Netflix Japan'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

By Mike Fu

Netflix Japan’s same-sex dating show returns with a season that lets relationships unfold at their own pace.

Japanese freelance television announcer Hiroshi Kume in 2003

CULTURE / TV & Streaming

Jan 13, 2026

Japanese freelance announcer Hiroshi Kume dies at 81

The announcer was known for hosting the popular music show "The Best Ten" and news show "News Station."

Taiga Nakano (left) plays Toyotomi Hidenaga, the younger brother and right-hand man of legendary warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Sosuke Ikematsu) in NHK’s new taiga drama, “Brothers in Arms.”

CULTURE / TV & Streaming

Jan 2, 2026

NHK drama series returns to Sengoku Period spectacle

By Alyssa I. Smith

NHK’s “taiga” period drama leaves the pleasure quarters of Edo behind to shift focus on the right-hand man of one of Japan’s great unifiers.

Netflix Japan’s newest reality-dating experiment “Badly in Love” follows self-identified delinquents as they try to find romance.

CULTURE / TV & Streaming

Dec 16, 2025

‘Badly in Love’: Netflix Japan’s most chaotic dating show may be its most honest

By Patrick St. Michel

Netflix Japan’s “Badly in Love” turns delinquent bravado into surprisingly earnest, character-driven reality television.

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

By Mike Fu

The new sci-fi show was created with involvement of scientists and space experts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the NHK.

“Last Samurai Standing” centers on a mysterious fighting event in which participants must hack and slash their opponents apart to collect enough wooden tags to win a big-money prize.

CULTURE / TV & Streaming / Wide Angle

Nov 21, 2025

The secret to 'Last Samurai Standing'? Treating live action like anime.

By Patrick St. Michel

Netflix’s wild new samurai series embraces cartoonish chaos — and it works.

A billboard advertises Taylor Swift’s new album, "The Life of a Showgirl," in New York's Times Square earlier this month.

CULTURE / TV & Streaming

Oct 15, 2025

Taylor Swift Eras Tour six-part docuseries coming to Disney+

By Molly Schuetz

New documentary and concert film caps off an eventful year for the American singer-songwriter.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

As Japan accelerates AI adoption, policymakers and corporations frame the technology as essential to offsetting a projected labor shortfall of 11 million workers by 2040.

Japan is betting big on AI. Few workers have used it.

By Eric Margolis

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