The Pokémon Company and Pokémon fans celebrated Pokémon Day on Thursday, February 27, marking the 24th anniversary of the first game — Pokémon Red and...
Shoko Kanazawa, 34, a Japanese calligrapher who also happens to have Down Syndrome, decided that the kanji for the first New Year of the...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Akira Yoshino, together with Stanley Whittingham and John Goodenough, for their...
A wholesale reshuffle of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet, announced on September 11, produced a lineup made up of staunch Abe allies and...
What fan of manga artist Go Nagai would want to miss a look-back on half-a-century of the famed artist’s manga and anime works, such...
There has been a troubling lack of understanding of the comfort women issue. Indeed, given the refusal in many quarters to see the comfort women...
There is a basic misunderstanding about the current trade friction between Japan and South Korea. Many see Japan’s refusal to sell South Korea three types...
What is Japan’s “national sport”? It depends on what is meant by “national,” or if we’re talking about spectators or participants, amateur or professional....
Canadian poet Clea Roberts will be performing her poetic readings at Kyoto University on Friday afternoon, September 13, as part of her special reading tour...
Dear Megumi, The summer has come and gone in Japan. The deepening color of the leaves and the beautiful late blooming flowers remind us...
The spring and summer months of 2019 have seen a spate of articles about the allegedly high rates of “virginity” among Japanese, especially 40-year-old...
On a recent visit to the city of Changsha in China’s Hunan province, I took a side trip to Shaoshan, the picturesque little village...