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Japanese movie posters for three Hollywood movies. It's often interesting to see how the promotion of Hollywood movies varies from country to country.
One of the Pacific Theatre's most brutal battles during World War II was the conquest of the island of Saipan in the summer ...
Posters have been commissioned to promote the Olympics since 1912 in Stockholm. For that year’s games, the official poster featured nude male athletes waving their country’s flags, led by Sweden.
As Joe DiMaggio stepped from the plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, a full-throated roar rose from the waiting crowd. "Banzai DiMaggio," they shouted. Joe and 16 other ...
In the past three years, one of the few bright spots in Japan’s inflation-ridden economy has been the cost of dry cleaning, and the thanks are due to some 1,500 enterprising operators who ...
TAFT TOASTS JAPAN AS SINCERE FRIEND; Though Rivals in Trade, He Says, There Never Was Any Danger of Trouble. GREETS JAPANESE VISITORS Shouts Banzai with Them as Guests of the Minneapolis ...
Marvin Agustin had fun with his little ninjas when he unveiled the new trick art gallery at Banzai: The Great Authentic Japanese Buffet, the latest in the string of restaurants he owns.
It was a marketing gimmick of the first order to open Takeshi Kitano's 'Kantoku Banzai!' and Hitoshi Matsumoto's 'Dai Nipponjin' on the same weekend. This head-to-head duel between films by the ...
Three booming cheers of “Banzai!” rang out Tuesday at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo as Naruhito formally declared his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne as the nation’s 126th emperor.
Banzai, Channel 4's spoof Japanese game show, is at the centre of controversy in America over claims that it demeans Asian people.
When the Japanese learned that Tokyo had been selected for the Olympic Games in 2020, banzai cheers could be heard from Wakkanai in the north to Kagoshima in the south, as it was a rare piece of good ...