Donald Trump met Kim Jong Un at Panmunjom on the military demarcation line in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas on Sunday, June...
Bubble tea drinks are all the rage in Japan and shops selling bubble tea, or tapioca タピオカ as it's called here, seem to be popping up...
For much of May, my Google news alert was peppered with stories about a slug that had allegedly brought chaos to rail travel in Japan...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent musings that maybe America should exit the ‘unfair’ U.S.-Japan defense treaty surprised even his supporters. His opponents predictably blew a...
Japan’s commercial whaling industry, resumed after a 30-year pause, is likely to have a rocky start as the country tries to balance its actions against...
It was the end of a blissfully-long Golden Week holiday in May, but one young man was already thinking of back-to-school blues. Yutabon, a...
Teaching English in Japan: Using Songs, Snacks, and Word Games in Kindergarten It’s a quiet morning just like any other. The birds are chirping,...
Paul Sracic, who chairs the Department of Politics and International Relations at Youngstown State University, predicts that protectionism in trade and immigration will dominate...
Prior to hosting the G-20 Summit in Osaka in late June, the Abe government was considering proposing a set of rules for infrastructure investment...
Women’s empowerment had been a key element on the G20 agenda in the last few years, and the 2019 summit in Osaka was no exception....
Although Tokyo’s Rainbow Pride has already come and gone, the month of June is internationally recognized as LGBT Pride Month, commemorating the Stonewall riots which...
Observers who were hoping for more discussions on the environment, plastic waste, and how to deal with climate change in general during the 2019...