We follow UK-born Suzanne Ross - a lacquerware artisan in Wajima - in her efforts to recover after this January's quake, and meet Chinese Tomoe Setsubai who runs a Japanese confectionery in Yokohama.

Tomoe Oketani, 96, is a second-generation Japanese American—known as Nikkei Nisei—who was born and raised in Hawaii. Her parents immigrated from Hiroshima Prefecture. Her father worked on a ...

Actress Kasumi Arimura will play Tomoe Yukishiro, the titular character's ex-wife, in the final two-part, live-action film adaptation of the "Rurouni Kenshin" swashbuckler manga and anime franchise.