On January 11th, the Japanese government confirmed spotting a submerged Chinese submarine near Japan’s territorial waters as it entered the 24 nautical miles (44 km)...
On Wednesday night, January 31st, Japan, like its neighbors, was treated to a total lunar eclipse—an event where the Earth’s shadow passes over a...
As a foreign correspondent for most of the several decades of my journalism career, following trends in the Japan-United States-China trilateral relationship has been...
A gray sky hangs low over Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture. Powder snow mixes with the blustery wind. After the wind stops, the sound...
Late last year, according to multiple sources, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited the ambassadors of at least 16 countries to a December 13th...
The cremated remains of 10 bodies from North Korea, which washed ashore along the coastline of Akita Prefecture,- between November and December 2017, are being...
On January 23rd, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo gave an exclusive interview to the Sankei Shimbun, revealing for the first time his intention to attend the...
Aerial view of Hashima (or Gunkanjima), the UNESCO's cultural heritage of the world The KAKEN database is a record of research carried out with the...
On November 30, 2017, Hong Kong-born Jenny Kwan, a member of the Canadian House of Commons from the western province of British Columbia, took to...
On January 22, it was revealed that an assistant professor at Kyoto University’s Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA - headed by Shinya...
North Korea will be participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics, which will be held this February in PyeongChang, South Korea. This announcement is rather surprising to many observers,...
An important twelfth-century Japanese sword, discovered hidden in the ceiling during a 1939 refurbishment of the treasure house at Kasuga Taisha shrine in Nara, will now...