Chelsea Jeter Ah, the onsen—a distant dream for those with tattoos in Tokyo…or so we thought. More and more bathhouses are allowing our...
The Sankei Shimbun On the afternoon of June 7—predawn on June 8, Japan time—Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and United States President Donald Trump...
Hideki Yoshimura Who will pay for the hotel rooms of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his delegation during the United States-North Korea...
Jason Morgan With few exceptions, leaders of countries are career politicians. They get to their country’s top spot by learning to be as...
He has an incomparable aesthetic vision and offbeat sense of humor. Many contend that American director Wes Anderson has “never made a bad movie,...
Dr. Rupakjyoti Borah It is often said that “whoever is the Lord of Malacca has his hand on the throat of Venice.” ...
Shinji Ono Recently, spells of fierce eruptions with dramatic lava flows have been occurring on Kilauea volcano on the island of Hawaii, also known...
Luca Vogel Due to its curved geographical shape and chains of mountains separating its regions, Japan is, culturally-speaking, quite diverse. There are many...
Duncan Bartlett In the classic British children’s story Alice Through The Looking Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice, “Sometimes I believe as many...
Gustav Strandell I still remember my first research trip to a nursing home in Japan. It was in 1997 in the Hokkaido countryside,...
Shohei Nagatsuji How can young people help ensure a sustainable society for themselves and the future generations? Some Japanese high school students’ groups...
Patrick Kelly In the Seto Inland Sea, a large body of water separating Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—three of Japan’s four main islands—lies the small...