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Nippon TV’s Golden SixTONES comes to Netflix

Nippon TV has announced that its hit entertainment show, Golden SixTONES, featuring the popular six-boy band, is now available for globally on Netflix. This marks the first time that a regular weekly entertainment show from Nippon TV will be distributed on Netflix. The show will stream in Japanese and be subtitled in multiple languages around […]

June 6, 2025

Rainbow and Poliarte enchant World Expo 2025 Osaka

Rainbow’s Winx Club has lit up the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka ahead of the global launch of the new series Winx Club – The Magic is Back, which is set to premiere on Netflix globally, including in Japan, in October 2025. Created by Iginio Straffi, founder of Rainbow, the Italian animated brand […]

June 3, 2025

Electric Entertainment licenses Leverage: Redemption to WAKO In Japan

Electric Entertainment, the US-based production and distribution company, has closed a deal with WAKO in Japan for the first season of Electric Entertainment’s original spin-off series Leverage Redemption. WAKO will have TV and VoD rights. The announcement was jointly made by Sonia Mehandjiyska, Head of International Distribution at Electric Entertainment, and the Acquisition team at […]

May 13, 2025

Japan’s D2C options come to a head

Japan has four cellular network operators with three of them controlling some 80 per cent of the market. Rakuten, currently Number 4 in the hierarchy with about 3 per cent market share, is looking to grow its ‘Direct-to-Consumer’ satellite connectivity share thanks to AST SpaceMobile. NTT Docomo, the largest player, does not – as yet […]

May 12, 2025

Pinkfong partners with TBS Television

The Pinkfong Company, the entertainment company behind the hit Baby Shark brand, has signed a strategic business agreement with TBS Television, one of Japan’s five major commercial broadcasters, for joint production and business collaboration. Through this partnership, The Pinkfong Company and TBS Television will co-develop new and original content aimed at young viewers and their […]

April 28, 2025

Amazon Japanese Original Marry My Husband on Prime Video in June

Prime Video has announced that the Japanese Amazon Original drama series Marry My Husband will premiere exclusively on Prime Video on June 27th. Prime Video customers in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide will be able to enjoy weekly episodes of the series. Based on the popular NAVER web novel, this Japan-Korea joint project […]

April 28, 2025

Remow launches 24/7 Samurai-Showdown FAST channel in US

Remow, the entertainment company dedicated to bringing Japanese content to the rest of the world, has announced the launch of 24/7 Samurai-Showdown, a FAST channel that delivers action-packed sword fights and high-flying ninja acrobatics 24 hours a day. Wiewers in the US can stream the 24/7 Samurai-Showdown channel for free on Prime Video and experience […]

April 24, 2025

Japan: Paramount+ on Lemino

Paramount+, the SVoD service from Paramount, has announced a new deal in Japan with OTT service, Lemino, operated by Japanese telco, NTT Docomo. Through the deal, viewers in the market will be able to access Paramount+ via Lemino Channel, which is available as an à la carte subscription on the platform for a monthly fee […]

April 22, 2025

Prime Video launches Apple TV+ add-on in Japan, ​​​​​​​Netherlands

Apple TV+ in now available via Prime Video in Japan and the Netherlands as an add-on subscription. Until April 24th, new customers and eligible returning customers can subscribe to Apple TV+ for 200 yen (€1.25) per month for three months. Prime members who subscribe to Apple TV+ via Prime Video will have access to series […]

April 9, 2025

Axelspace to provide daily Earth images of 2.3m km² by 2026

Axelspace Corporation, which designs, manufactures and operates microsatellites, and conducts business to promote a society where space is accessible to people around the world, has announced plans to launch seven next-generation Earth observation microsatellites, GRUS-3, in 2026. This will expand the company’s microsatellite constellation to include more than ten satellites, enabling observation of broader areas […]

April 9, 2025