It explains why actors like Harrison Ford, who no one would have expected to see in an ad in the ‘90s in America, would spend a few days in Japan shooting commercials for Kirin beer.

More recently around 2013, Bruce Willis was back in Japan filming a car commercial, but this time, he was speaking Japanese catch phrases for the micro-minicar Daihatsu Mira e:S (pronounced ‘ees ...

I’ve survived as an Asian actor in Hollywood for 22 years, and for the past few, I’ve also helped them cast Japanese actors. And I watched up close how blatantly racist this casting process ...

Dry January made easy with non-alcoholic drink recipes 04:40. A popular Japanese actor hired to be the wholesome face of a low-alcohol beer has been fired after getting drunk and breaking into his ...