Blog
My First Time Watching a B.League Game
The B.League is Japan’s men’s professional basketball league. Think of it as America’s NBA, Europe’s EuroBasket, the Philippines’ […]
Culture & Society
Wrestling Superstar Saori Yoshida Retires: ‘One Needs to Know When to Stop’
It is not often that an athlete has enough influence to gather approximately 200 journalists for a press conference. […]
Blog
Moving to Japan: My First Christmas in Japan
December 2018 marked my first Christmas in Japan. It was especially interesting as before the holiday I couldn’t imagine […]
Culture & Society
Tokyo’s New “Manga Art Hotel” Has Over 5,000 Manga Titles For Travelers To Lose Themselves In
Source: PR Times While net cafes and capsule hotels are mostly viewed as an affordable bare bones way to […]
Special Reports
INTERVIEW | Governor Yuriko Koike Promotes Prosperous Metropolis Beyond Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics
Governor Yuriko Koike is set on her plans for a prosperous Tokyo leading up to and beyond the 2020 […]
Culture & Society
[Hidden Wonders of Japan] Pray to the God of Good Business with a Bamboo Branch!
The Toka Ebisu Festival, known as ”Ebessan” among the locals, has just been held at Osaka’s Imamiya Ebisu Shrine. […]
Culture & Society
Furusato Matsuri: Japan’s Best Food and Culture Festival Celebrates 10th Year
The Furusato Matsuri Tokyo (loosely translated as “hometown folk festival”) kicked off at the Tokyo Dome on Friday, […]
Culture & Society
The Story of Kumamoto Mountains’ Lucky Cat
The Escape Stone, long said to be resilient in the face of calamities, has fallen — revealing the silhouette […]
Diplomacy & Security
Foreign Policy Challenges for India in 2019
The year 2019 has just begun and there are a host of foreign policy challenges that New Delhi has […]
Special Reports
Top 25 JAPAN Forward Articles of 2018: 5-1
Happy New Year from JAPAN Forward! One week into 2019, we are sharing with you in a series the 25 […]
Books
[BOOK REVIEW] ‘The Political History of Modern Japan’ by Shinichi Kitaoka
History is like a series of buoys marking the way through a vast ocean. The buoys are events, facts, […]
Special Reports
The Reality of the Mobilization of Koreans During World War II – An Analysis Based on Statistics and Written Records
(First of A 2-Part Series) In 1965, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic relations. Japan paid South […]