Demanding an end to public use of the war's Japanese name, the Asahi Shimbun justifies itself by citing a postwar Allied Occupation order that expired in...
Critics' threats of violence against the publisher and sellers of "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" stifle free speech.
Professors Ramseyer and Morgan's book demonstrates the elusiveness of truth and raises questions about protecting academic freedom in the comfort women debate.
Hong Kong released Agnes Chow from prison in 2021. She recounts her ordeal since, including a forced propaganda tour and her painful decision to leave the...
A man of enormous political force, Daisaku Ikeda expanded Soka Gakkai globally and created a political party that has strongly influenced Japan's China policy.
The Quran burnings in Sweden have angered Islamic countries. If left unchecked, these could have serious consequences for European security.
The Japanese Communist Party betrayed its dictatorial tendencies when it expelled an official who called for reforms. Who would want to see them in power?
New Praemium Imperiale Sculpture laureate Ai Weiwei discusses influences on his life and work from poetry and refugees to dictators and free speech.
No politician has been subjected to as much verbal abuse and anonymous hate speech as Shinzo Abe. Is that the freedom of speech that we are...
Among the protestors from Hong Kong and Japan were also people from mainland China, showing their support for the cause of Hong Kong.
Russia claims the ban is in retaliation for Japan’s anti-Russian campaign, while using force to change the status quo in Ukraine and the Northern Territories.
“I think it is extremely irresponsible to give [the Olympics] to a country that violates human rights as blatantly as the Chinese regime is doing.” —...