You can read the Please Put Them On, Takamine-san manga online through Yen Press and Manga Up! The series is available in paperback and digital versions. There are ...

While Please Put Them On, Takamine-san! only began premiering in April 2025, the anime has already concluded with 12 episodes. The anime's finale saw Takamine kiss Shirota to save the Cinderella play.

Till Weingärtner has received funding from the Japan Foundation. In March 2024, Japanese film fans celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of one of Japan’s most popular female film stars, ...

Japanese cinema has bequeathed us some extraordinary actresses. And though none have attained the international renown of their European or American counterparts, a few have secured at least some ...

In ‘You Two Seem Quite Intimate,’ Ellie Evergreen is introduced as Shirota’s cheerful childhood friend. She invites him to a water balloon fight, where her soaked appearance causes discomfort. Ellie ...

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Hideko Takamine, a child star in Japan in the 1930s who became one of her country’s leading screen actresses during the post- World War II era, in which she played a variety of contemporary women who ...

Takamine had a mountain to climb when it set out to challenge the dominance of American acoustic makers in the 1960s - but the Japanese company soon became master of the electro-acoustic format, ...