EXCLUSIVE: One of Japan‘s leading talent agencies is betting big on short-form drama. Yoshimoto Kogyo, which reps some of the nation’s biggest comedians and actors, has joined with Fany Corporation on ...

LAS VEGAS — Knicks summer league coach Dice Yoshimoto is firm on one thing. He won’t answer questions asked in Japanese, in his native tongue, preferring English, his second language. Yoshimoto, who ...

Japan's giant Yoshimoto Kogyo talent agency will make its entire roster of more than 6,000 entertainers sign pledges that they won't do any work related to yakuza gangs or other organized crime groups ...

For more than 100 years, Yoshimoto Kogyo has been entertaining Japanese audiences, often with the kinds of madcap comedy-variety shows the Asian nation has become so well known for. The arrival of the ...