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"This Kind of Thing Was Portrayed in the Movies in Japan" - Kenji Kamiyama on Kurosawa Influencing 'War of the Rohirrim'

How do you make a good animated movie? You have to start with the right animators and creatives; Kenji Kamiyama is that guy. The director of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim has not only ...
Washington Times

Slain Japanese journalist’s camera surfaces after 15 years

BANGKOK — A video camera that had been missing for more than 15 years after it was dropped by a Japanese journalist who was fatally shot during a street protest in Myanmar was handed over Wednesday to ...
Santa Barbara Independent

Kenji Jacklio Fukudome

Kenji Jacklio Fukudome passed away peacefully on November 28, 2025, at the age of 62, leaving behind a legacy of inspiration, strength, and resourcefulness. Born in Kagoshima Prefecture in Southern ...
Panda

Climate Witness: Kenji Ito, Japan

Photographer Kenji Ito has for many years been capturing images of the nature and wildlife of Hokkaido with his camera. He says that in recent years it has become harder to photograph the frozen ...
Variety

‘On-Gaku: Our Sound’ Director Kenji Iwaisawa Returns to Annecy With Work-in-Progress ‘Hyakuemu.’: First Look Artwork (EXCLUSIVE)

Japanese director Kenji Iwaisawa‘s debut feature “On-Gaku: Our Sound” was a hit at the 2020 Annecy Animation Festival, where it played in the festival’s Contrechamp competition and won best original ...
The Drum

Japanese journalist Kenji Goto’s apt ‘hated is not human’ tweet goes viral following his execution at Isis hands

A four year-old tweet from Japanese journalist Kenji Goto has gone viral after its message of peace connected with those mourning his execution at Isis hands over the weekend. Despite ongoing ...
WGBH

Composer Kenji Bunch is telling Japanese-American stories from WWII through music

Kenji Bunch is, simply put, one of America’s best composers. While writing in genres as established and familiar as the string quartet, he’s brilliantly original, drawing from multiple traditions and ...
The Korea Herald

Japan mourns Kenji Goto as caring and courageous reporter

Whether in tsunami-stricken northeastern Japan or conflict-ridden Sierra Leone, the stories of the vulnerable, the children and the poor drove the work of journalist Kenji Goto. The news of his ...
Yahoo

‘The Furious’: How Japan’s Tanigaki Kenji Elevated a Steaming Bangkok Red Light District Into a Temple of Martial Arts Action (EXCLUSIVE)

The “police station” built in a few days from an old retail unit in Surawong, central Bangkok, is so realistic from the outside that several pedestrians stop and stare, perhaps wondering if this is ...
News4Jax

Camera surfaces 15 years after journalist killed in Myanmar

Read full article: Crash on I-10 East in Duval County, ramp to I-95 South, off-ramp right lane blocked BANGKOK – A video camera that had been missing for more than 15 years after it was dropped by a ...
Los Angeles Times

One man is preserving the legacy of the code talkers, America’s secret weapon in WWII

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Kenji Kawano was hitchhiking on the Navajo Nation when Carl Gorman pulled over to give him a lift. During the drive, Kawano, then 23, explained that he’d arrived in the U.S. two ...