Year: 2018

• Photography

2018 April 15 – 29 – Sakura Photos by JAPAN Forward Readers

JAPAN Forward May 4, 2018

Since JAPAN Forward asked readers and followers in mid-March to send us their original sakura...

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• Culture

Discovering Japan, Learning the Value of Community

Crystal M. Land May 4, 2018

  In March 2018, I joined an Upper School global travel trip to Japan...

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• Politics & Security

U.S. Pacific Command Warns PRC Now Controls South China Sea

JAPAN Forward May 4, 2018

    For years Japan has been sounding the alarm about Chinese aggression in...

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• Special Coverage

Japanese Investigator Says Becoming Royal Thai Police Colonel Is His Second Chance at Life

Hideki Yoshimura, Sankei Shimbun May 4, 2018 2

(Fourth of Five Parts)   This is the second to the last part of...

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• Politics & Security

8th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting: What Should Be on the Agenda?

Rieko Hayakawa, Ph.D May 3, 2018

China's aircraft carrier Liaoning (C) takes part in a military drill of Chinese People's...

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• History
• Special Coverage

Place It 'Somewhere Else,' Duterte Says of Uprooted 'Comfort Woman' Statue in Manila

Hideki Yoshimura, Sankei Shimbun May 2, 2018

  A female statue in Manila symbolizing “comfort women” during Japan’s occupation (1942-1945) of...

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• Special Coverage

Kunio Tojima: Investigating Serial Killings, Hotel Fires, Plane Crashes, Insurance Murders

Hideki Yoshimura, Sankei Shimbun May 2, 2018

PHOTO: Having a meal with Thai police co-workers (photo provided by Kunio Tojima)  ...

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• Special Coverage

Veteran Investigator Kunio Tojima on Solving Crimes Through Fingerprints, Footprints

Hideki Yoshimura, Sankei Shimbun May 1, 2018

[Photo: collecting fingerprints with young officers at the scene of a disaster]    ...

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• Special Coverage

Interview with Kunio Tojima, Japanese Investigator Who Trains Thai Police

Hideki Yoshimura, Sankei Shimbun April 30, 2018

  (First of Five Parts)     Veteran investigator Kunio Tojima, police colonel of...

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• Politics & Security

Unless Concrete Steps Are Taken, North Korea's Denuclearization Statement is Mere Rhetoric

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun April 30, 2018

  South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean Workers’ Party Chairman Kim Jong-un...

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• Culture

'Eshi-100': Sankei Exhibition Features Works of Top Manga, Anime Illustrators through May 6

Eiji Honma April 28, 2018

Otohiko Takano's 'Hana no Iro'     Feast on themes of ‘miyabi’ and ‘Moee’...

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• Culture
• Imperial Family

Visiting Japan's Museums: Architecture at the Edo Tatemono-en

Earl Kinmonth April 27, 2018

  Since recognition of Japan Cool in 2009 by Douglas McGray, there has been...

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