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Goson Sakai, 29, is a former professional soccer player of Japanese and German heritage. He comes from an athletic family, as ...
Netflix has announced the premiere of its new Japanese series, Plastic Beauty which will come to the streamer some time in ...
Netflix’s first Japanese-produced physical survival reality series, Final Draft, concluded on August 12, 2025.
All but one of the 25 contestants have retired from their sports. The prize is 30 million yen (just over $200,000).
Riisa Naka and Mayu Matsuoka will star as rival surgeons in Netflix’s upcoming Japanese drama series “Plastic Beauty,” which takes viewers inside Japan’s cosmetic surgery industry. The 2026 series ...
Netflix's fee starts at 800 yen ($7.50) and goes to 1,800 yen ($17) in Japan. Amazon does not give a breakdown by nation for its 150 million global Amazon Prime users, but its subscribers are ...
“Japan’s love affair with unscripted content goes back to the 1950s and remains one of the country’s most dominant forms of entertainment,” said Netflix’s two managers of live action ...
Netflix has finally arrived in Japan, a country with huge revenue potential for the video streaming company. However, it's clearly done its research, choosing to launch the service in a slightly ...
Last month, Netflix launched in six new European markets and now serves 50M subscribers in 50 countries around the world. Pretty soon, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said this morning, Asia ...
Netflix will launch a streaming-video subscription service in Japan this fall, the company announced Wednesday. At launch, Netflix Japan will include a number of Japanese films and TV series, as ...
Netflix's director of content acquisition, Kaata Sakamoto, has been with Netflix since its Japan launch five years ago. He said hardly anyone expressed interest in making content for Netflix at first.