Candid and completely unapologetic, ZOMBIE-CHANG hopes that she can “blow away the tent” with her music at Fuji Rock 2022.
Dr. Shigeru Omi, a high profile academic, should take care not to make baseless assertions that Tokyo 2020 increased the flow of people and therefore the...
Yesterday, we looked at the timeline of how COVID-19 took over the lives of people in Japan. Yet, one might realize that not everything was doom...
In typical Japanese style, the country has trending words of the year and the kanji of the year. We take a look at the single unwelcome...
~JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readership in 2020. We invite you to find what attracted readers to our most popular articles of the year,...
What were the words and topics that Japanese couldn’t get enough of? What were the buzzwords on everyone’s lips? (First part) Trending Word...
Share prices in Tokyo are enjoying a boom. Investors impressed by the recent performance of Japan’s big corporations have been gradually moving more of their money...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
Nobuyoshi Araki, commonly known by the mononym Arākī, is a world-famous photographer who has also been awarded the highest order by the Austrian government. ...
Face masks have become a must at exhibitions, as well as temperature checks at entrances, and avoidance of close-contact situations. With such measures, museums that...
Japan marked July 24, the date the 2020 Tokyo Olympics would have started, with the grim news that, one year away from the start of...
The continuation of stay-at-home restrictions due to the novel coronavirus pandemic have significantly impacted the reality surrounding video games. The World Health Organization (WHO)...