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Mizuho Aoki
Mizuho Aoki is a staff writer covering local news, including the current Tokyo gubernatorial race, education and aviation-related stories. She graduated from Hitotsubashi Universty with a degree in social science.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 30, 2010
Hikari Mitsushima: from pop idol to screen diva?
Up until last year, 24-year-old Hikari Mitsushima was best known as a former member of the Okinawan idol group Folder 5.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2010
Hog story ties Iowa, Yamanashi
Tokyo and Washington are now locking horns over Japan's import restrictions on American beef, but when it comes to pork the story is a little bit different.
JAPAN
Apr 7, 2010
Ginza gives way to carnations
About 5,000 domestically grown carnations were put on display Tuesday in a bustling intersection in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district to promote flower sales in the runup to May 9 — Mother's Day.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 12, 2010
Family-friendly exhibit celebrates mammals
From Ueno Zoo's giant panda, Ling Ling, to a 2.5-meter-tall polar bear, around 280 stuffed specimens, fossils and skeletons of mammals will go on display at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo from March 13. Titled "Mammals: Diversity in Terrestrial Life," the exhibition examines the evolution...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Feb 19, 2010
Koshonin the Movie
Director: Hidetomo Matsuda
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Feb 12, 2010
Invictus
Director: Clint Eastwood
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 12, 2010
Hokkaido town chills out with film festival
Hokkaido has more than just skiing and snowboarding on offer this week.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Jan 22, 2010
Nodame Cantabile Saishu Gakusho: Part 1
Based on Tomoko Ninomiya's popular manga about aspiring classical musicians, this comedy-drama takes off from where the Fuji TV series left off: Two gifted protagonists — piano student Nodame (Juri Ueno) and young conductor Chiaki (Hiroshi Tamaki) — head off to Paris to pursue their dreams. The...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 20, 2009
Focus on arty Asian marvels at Tokyo's FILMeX festival
Tokyo FILMeX is increasing its load from 39 films to 61 this year, to celebrate its 10th year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Oct 23, 2009
Non-chan Noriben
Director: Akira Ogata
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 23, 2009
Kiwis take promotional punt over to Tokyo Tower
A giant inflatable rugby ball will appear at the foot of Tokyo Tower for one week from Oct. 28 to advertise the next Rugby World Cup to be held across New Zealand in 2011, also coinciding with the first-ever Bledisloe Cup to be held in Japan — New Zealand's All Blacks vs. Australia's Qantas Wallabies...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 16, 2009
Foreign filmmaker wrestles with legacy of manga hero
"I hope people give it a chance. Because if people give it a chance they'll like it," says director David Bowers about his new animation, "Astro Boy" (titled "Atom" in domestic release), in a room at the Park Hyatt hotel in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Oct 2, 2009
Doomsday
Director: Neil Marshall
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 2, 2009
Documentary follows struggles of an addict
Tokyo-based U.S. filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash's debut feature documentary will be shown for the first time in Japan on Sunday at Nakano Zero.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Aug 28, 2009
"Taken"
Director: Pierre Morel
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 14, 2009
Film center commemorates Tsuchimoto
The National Film Center in Tokyo's Chuo Ward presents the works of Noriaki Tsuchimoto (1928-2008), a postwar documentary filmmaker, who is best known for an extensive series of films on Minamata disease, one of the worst industrial pollution-related illnesses in Japan's history.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Aug 14, 2009
Hachiko: A Dog's Story
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Jul 10, 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 10, 2009
Sabu masterfully helms a floating canning factory
After debuting as a writer/director in 1996 with "D.A.N.G.A.N. Runner," a kinetic comedy of three men chasing each other around, Sabu has been a regular on international film circuits, and is especially liked by the Berlin International Film Festival where he has had six films screened in the past, of...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Jul 3, 2009
Chikujo Seyo!
Director: Yo Kohatsu
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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