In the two decades I taught my course “Japan in the Foreign Imagination” at Keio and other Japanese universities, I came to stress that most...
On May 21, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) announced that it had removed from its website the cover design that had appeared on...
On February 26, the New York Times (NYT) published an opinion piece by Koichi Nakano, identified only as “professor of political science at...
Coaching legend Don Shula died on Monday, May 4, at his South Florida home. He was 90. It was only one football game,...
April 17 marked the 125th year since the Shimonoseki Treaty was signed with the Qing dynasty (present-day China) at a posh Japanese restaurant in...
The new coronavirus originating from China’s Wuhan is wreaking havoc throughout the world. At the end of March, the number of coronavirus deaths in Italy...
English language coverage of the coronavirus issue shows once again the poor quality of English language reporting on Japan — reporting that is biased, incompetent,...
In the United States and the United Kingdom, “Mickey Mouse” is used to mean something trivial, insignificant, or senseless. While foreign media coverage of the...
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...
Isn’t totalitarianism from either the left or the right the common enemy of democratic countries and their citizens? Joining hands and close cooperation are...
(Second of Two Parts) Part 1: [Mythbusters] The ‘Happiness Report’ that Makes Me Very Unhappy Japan's Missing Culture of 'Blowing your own...
The New York Times ran one of its periodic pieces on how bad things are in Japan. The gist of this piece is that China’s...