The King’s Singers’ online virtual tour in Japan is finally here. On Saturday October 24, the worldwide famous a cappella sextet is broadcasting “Finding...
Kobe City Eye Hospital in Hyogo Prefecture announced on October 16 that it had performed the world’s first clinical trial transplant to reverse blindness....
You might have figured this out by now by following this column, but Japan loves all that is seasonal. There is a cultural appreciation of...
Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga’s recent trip to the Southeast Asian nations of Vietnam and Indonesia was his first overseas visit after taking over as...
Japan’s development of a new type of spacecraft for delivering supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) is progressing. Called the HTV-X, an abbreviation...
It is around this time of year, when the cool autumn breezes begin to blow, that we find a morning visit to Omicho Market...
In the time of COVID-19, we are all becoming more anxious about interacting with others. What if inadvertently the shopkeeper at the supermarketーor your...
How long will it take before Japan looks back on the Trump presidency with nostalgia? It may happen sooner than you think. If...
I've been fortunate to be able to attend several pro sports teams' first-ever games (or a reasonable facsimile, such as a first-ever home game) over the...
Japan progresses through the ‘autumn of appetite’ (shokuyokunoaki 食欲の秋) from September every year. In celebration of the season, we present the “JAPAN Forward Reader’s Ramen Championship” bracket. We...
Above: Author Yumiko Sugihara and a picture from the Takeshima Picture Book from which a South Korean academic stole an image to make false accusations against Japan...
Osaka was selected on November 23, 2018, by the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) to host the World Expo 2025. In the months that...