Canoe Film has boarded multigenerational love story “Akashi” for international sales, excluding Canada and Japan, and is ...

Mayumi Yoshida’s Japanese language drama has sold to Canadian indie KinoSmith and Japan’s Rabbit House after a weekend screening at the European Film Market. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Tokyo ...

AKASHI, Japan — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has promised "new dimension" measures to address an existential crisis: his country's plunging birth rate. Fewer than 800,000 babies were born in ...

Mayumi Yoshida’s Japanese-language drama about a struggling Vancouver artist discovering her grandmother’s secret while returning to Tokyo is screening at the Whistler Film Festival. By Etan Vlessing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mayumi Yoshida’s debut feature and Japanese-language drama Akashi has secured distribution deals in Canada and Japan following a ...

For years, Japanese leaders have tried to halt the country's falling birth rate. They might find lessons in the city of Akashi, whose population... Japan's plan to boost its birth rate raises doubt.

Taiki and Arisa Chisaka watch as their son Tatara plays at a city-run child care center in western Japan's Akashi city. (Anthony Kuhn/NPR) AKASHI, Japan — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has ...

AKASHI, Japan — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has promised "new dimension" measures to address an existential crisis: his country's plunging birthrate. Fewer than 800,000 babies were born in ...