December 2018 marked my first Christmas in Japan. It was especially interesting as before the holiday I couldn’t imagine how it would compare to Christmas...
Source: PR Times While net cafes and capsule hotels are mostly viewed as an affordable bare bones way to crash when traveling in Japan or...
Governor Yuriko Koike is set on her plans for a prosperous Tokyo leading up to and beyond the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. ...
The Toka Ebisu Festival, known as ”Ebessan” among the locals, has just been held at Osaka’s Imamiya Ebisu Shrine. Every year just after...
The Furusato Matsuri Tokyo (loosely translated as “hometown folk festival”) kicked off at the Tokyo Dome on Friday, January 11, and will be open until Sunday,...
The Escape Stone, long said to be resilient in the face of calamities, has fallen — revealing the silhouette of a cat. The colors...
The year 2019 has just begun and there are a host of foreign policy challenges that New Delhi has to contend with this year. ...
Happy New Year from JAPAN Forward! One week into 2019, we are sharing with you in a series the 25 most-read articles of the past 12...
History is like a series of buoys marking the way through a vast ocean. The buoys are events, facts, things as they really happened in...
(First of a 3-Part Series) In 1965, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic relations. Japan paid South Korea $ 300 million with no strings attached...
Happy New Year from JAPAN Forward! One week into 2019, we are sharing with you in a series the 25 most-read articles of the past 12...
On November 30, 2018, The Japan Times published an article about a South Korean court ordering Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay compensation to wartime...