Here’s our latest from Local Topics Japan, a website that introduces foreign audiences to parks, shrines, and other places in Japan where visitors can recharge...
It is “acceptable” to attack North Korean bases, a big majority—over 75%—of respondents said in the latest opinion poll jointly conducted by the Sankei Shimbun and...
In Saipan, a commonwealth of the United States, there is a bronze statue of a Japanese man that has been there since before the war. The...
This week, in the wake of increasingly shrill North Korean threats, Vice President Mike Pence is in East Asia, rallying the US-South Korea-Japan alliance around the...
The first group of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force troops has arrived back in Aomori, northern city of Japan on Wednesday, April 19, after a five-year peacekeeping...
Protesters demonstrate in front of the vehicle carrying Tatsuya Kato, leaving the Seoul Central District Court after the first trial hearing on November 27, 2014 (Masazumi...
South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye has been indicted for corruption. Impeached by lawmakers late last year and officially removed from office by the country's high...
The Sankei Shimbun has begun publishing the series “Letters to Megumi,” written by parents Shigeru and Sakie Yokota to their daughter who is held captive in...
Megumi, hello. Spring has come round again. It is the season of graduations and matriculations. In the springtime forty years ago, Dad took a picture of...
The season of Japan’s famous cherry blossom viewing—hanami in Japanese—is coming to an end. According to the forecasts from TV news, this weekend will be the last chance...
Why did Korean fathers abandon their daughters without a fight? (Statue in Seoul, photo cr. Michael Yon.) Trouble is unfolding. Few people, outside Japan...
The Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s Democratic Party, and other organizations have taken a firm position against legislation necessary for Japan to accede to the United Nations Convention...