Rights advocates roundly condemned in a recent symposium the violations being committed by China in Baluchistan, the biggest of the four provinces of Pakistan. ...
The voice of journalism in Okinawa has long been stifled by the stridently anti-military Okinawa Times and Ryukyu Shimpo. The only two local newspapers...
“There’s a tendency to underestimate North Korea’s capabilities for political reasons,” Jenny Town, a leading researcher from John Hopkins University in Washington DC, said...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur David Kaye speaks to the Japanese press in Tokyo on June 2, 2017 The United Nations Special Rapporteur continues...
East Asia is in the midst of tremendous geopolitical changes. Japanese politicians have preferred to play it safe, frustrating Japanese conservatives who see the...
United Nations Office at Geneva David Kaye In April of 2016, United Nations Special Rapporteur David Kaye visited Japan to study the state of...
In the aftermath of the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, the global nuclear energy sector has had the busiest year in almost three decades. Sixty reactors...
By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 323 pages Henry Holt & Co.: New York, 2016 Jason Morgan, for JAPAN Forward ...
The second satellite of the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS)—the Japanese version of the Global Positioning System (GPS)—is scheduled for launch on June 1, and it...
The “overseas Chinese” community, which exercises great influence in Japan’s economic world, is about to suffer a great split. Taiwanese residents and immigrants, long...
Noritoshi Kanai was 41 when he arrived in Los Angeles, California, with his family of four in 1964. He had come to take a job as...
Before the implementation of the Gregorian calendar the Japanese used the lunisolar calendar. It wasn’t until the January 1, 1873 (Meiji 6), that Japan adopted the...