Shinkai Makoto’s new anime feature “Suzume” has earned $13.5 million (JPY1.88 billion) in just three days since its Nov. 11 opening at the Japanese box office, a personal best for the proven hitmaker.

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we visit Makoto Taiko, a nonprofit in Pasadena that teaches the art of Japanese drumming to people of all ages ...

Step into Makoto Vail at The Grand Hyatt Vail, and find yourself in a contemporary celebration of Japanese aesthetics and Vail’s definitive mountainside allure. From an enclosed terrace above Gore ...

Suzume and Souta and Daijin are back in theaters again!! Crunchyroll has announced that Makoto Shinkai's beloved anime film Suzume is now playing again in theaters in the US. The film originally ...

'Suzume' writer and director Makoto Shinkai on the lingering fear of natural disasters in Japan. The film is heavily influenced by the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011 in Japan in which ...

TOKYO >> Makoto Shinkai doesn’t yet know the story he will tell in his next film, only that it will be about what he knows best. For one, it will be set in Japan, filled with those breathtakingly ...