By Liza Foreman The 26th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF),one of Asia’s largest annual film festival, will be held from October 17 to October 25  2013 at Roppongi Hills and other venues in Tokyo. At the end of March 2013, Tom Yoda will step down as Chairman of TIFF & TIFFCOM. "We sincerely thank Mr. Yoda for his dedication and enthusiastic efforts on behalf of TIFF during his 5 years as chairman," the festival said in a statement. Mr. Yoda’s successo...

 By Liza Foreman By the end of day one, the Tokyo International Film Festival (23-31 October, 2010) was in full swing.Throngs of fans gathered to witness arrivals at the green carpet for openingnight. But by the next day it was down to business with TIFF head Tom Yoda holding a discussion with journalists about the work Japan has to do to catchup with the American content business which Yoda estimated to be five times its size. Still, business and culturego hand in hand at he festival. Cultura...