~~ ISTANBUL, Turkey — A woman doctor from the ethnic Uyghur minority, now exiled in Turkey, painted a vivid picture of the Chinese crackdown on human...
On assignment in Hakodate, the eyes of the alluring pussycat drew me into a local bar, where the bartender’s pride of workmanship enhanced the flavor of...
China controlled the data that the WHO expert team could access. This will make it harder for the world to deal not only with this coronavirus,...
Studio MAPPA’s Yuichiro Hayashi took over as director of Attack on Titan from Studio Wit’s Tetsuro Araki who had made the anime a cultural phenomenon. Moreover,...
"The story deals with problems that every country and every person might be involved in, such as human rights, racial discrimination and responsibility for war", says...
“After corona, we have entered a period where the role of architecture must consider how the place and humans can be connected.” (Architect Kengo Kuma)
Ten years and about 750 articles later, here’s why the Kodomo Shimbun recently won the Eiji Yoshikawa Culture Award
Its presses damaged by the tsunami, Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun used pen and paper and posted updates at the city’s evacuation centers 10 years ago.
In Japan, look for cute and creative design elements in everyday life. One of our favourite Japan-only structures, though, are the fruit-shaped bus stops in Konagai.
If vaccinations should become necessary every year, the government cannot be sending several hundred billion Japanese yen overseas on an annual basis.
The COVID-19 crisis is not yet behind us, but these Japanese technologies minimize the risk of infection in public spaces, and bring us closer to a...
Japanese corporations should avoid advertising in the WaPo. The large fraction of its readers with hostile attitudes toward Japan and the Japanese is not likely to...