Forty-four young women in wide hakama pants stand on stage at the Takarazuka Grand Theater, a 30-minute train ride west of Osaka. With faces framed by boyish bobs or slicked-back hair, they announce ...

What happens when Takarazuka, Japan's longest-running all-female theater troupe, takes on Masayuki Suo's hit movie "Shall We Dance?," which won 14 Japanese Academy Awards in 1996 and aired ...

In its first century of existence, the Takarazuka Revue has grown to occupy one of the central positions in Japan’s entertainment world. All the performers are female, contributing to the unique ...

Kobayashi Ichizō (1873–1957) was a powerful corporate leader, but today he is best remembered as the founder of the perennially popular all-female Takarazuka Revue. What began as a scheme to boost ...

Every spring, among the entrance announcements of top universities in Japan, the unique all-women Takarazuka Music School makes headlines. Takarazuka Revue is an all-female theatrical company founded ...

It might have been the Winter Garden in 1935. The girls drifted languidly down an outsized ramp while the music came pumping out of the pit like an echo from a Ziegfeld revue. A couple whisked onstage ...

Konami has been gradually bringing classic Castlevania games to more recent platforms with the releases of Castlevania Advance Collection in 2021 and Castlevania Dominus Collection in 2024. However, ...

John Moore will be doing his best Japanese rain dance to ensure Werther gets a soft track for Sunday’s Group One Takarazuka Kinen. The champion trainer likes what has seen from the 2015-16 Horse of ...