Ryoma ga Yuku (literally, Ryoma Goes His Way), one of the most representative historical novels by Japanese author Ryotaro Shiba (1923-1996), has...
On April 5, two suspects who were close to the late literary critic Susume Nishibe, 78 at the time of his death, were arrested...
“The two leaders solemnly declared before the 80 million Korean people and the whole world that there will be no more war on the...
Gluten—such a silly word, isn’t it? Phonetically it is just about as annoying as it is for my culinary experience. For those of you...
The National Defense Academy of Japan, the institution which trains cadets to become future leaders of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF), was established in 1952,...
I saw a monkey in there roaming around once and it didn’t seem out of place. That’s the only way I can effectively introduce the...
Valerie Niquet, visiting fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo and senior Asia expert at the Foundation for Strategic Research in France,...
Three years ago, Touken Ranbu, an online game with personified legendary sword characters, kindled the Japanese sword trend, but the craze is even bigger...
For a country widely known for its many varieties of tea, Japan’s appetite has slowly been shifting towards coffee. In recent years, most likely due...
A new study indicates that the so-called “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is 16 times bigger than previous estimates. This swirling collection of trash between...
Some controversies could only be controversies in Japan. The “rediscovery” of supposedly lost logs of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) unit deployed to Iraq...
(Conclusion) This is the final installment of of Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward reporter Hideki Yoshimura’s interview with veteran Japanese investigator Kunio Tojima, who has...