Acclaimed novelist Banana Yoshimoto disclosed on social media that an e-book purporting to be written by her was being sold on Amazon Japan's bookstore warning her readers against buying a copy. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan’s largest talent agency, Yoshimoto Kogyo has made an investment in regional video streaming platform iflix. The two ...

I caught up with Yoshimoto Kogyo’s president, Akihiko Okamoto, to discuss how Japan's oldest comedy firm is bringing its unique humor worldwide. Founded in 1912, Yoshimoto Kogyo’s Tokyo office is ...

NAHA, Okinawa, Japan — Osaka-based Yoshimoto Kogyo has long been a leading force in the Japanese talent biz, supplying comics to seemingly every variety show on television. But under the leadership of ...

OSAKA -- Talent agency Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. will lift a ban on 11 comedians from performing on stage on Aug. 19, company officials said. The move comes after the comedians were punished for accepting ...

LAS VEGAS — Knicks summer league coach Dice Yoshimoto is firm on one thing. He won’t answer questions asked in Japanese, in his native tongue, preferring English, his second language. Yoshimoto, who ...

Japan's giant Yoshimoto Kogyo talent agency will make its entire roster of more than 6,000 entertainers sign pledges that they won't do any work related to yakuza gangs or other organized crime groups ...

Yoshimoto Kogyo, an Osaka-based talent agency and Japanese media company that celebrates its 110th anniversary this year, has announced the launch of “Yoshimoto Comedy Squad,” a YouTube channel that ...

The final stage of Japan’s leading talent agency Yoshimoto Kogyo going private is underway, led by a TV networks consortium in a 54 billion yen ($600 million) deal. By Gavin J Blair, The Associated ...

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