In 2019, the Japanese government announced that it would invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to Japan for an official state visit. It was a...
So there it is, done and dusted. I have cycled the length of Japan during COVID-19. It took 5 weeks, a lot of blood and...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
The Rakuten Japan Open, a men's ATP Tour event, was canceled in June, and the Hana-Cupid Japan Women's Open was called off as well....
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
Third in a series In decades past, the 162-game Major League Baseball season was a demanding workload for a team's publicity department under normal circumstances. Local,...
How is Japan getting on in the race towards a vaccine? JAPAN Forward visited leading vaccine research scientist Dr. Ryuichi Morishita on July 6 at his...
As readers who have lived here for any length of time will recognize, Japan has been slow to introduce restrictions on smoking. For example, smoking...
Lee Teng-hui may be gone, but the sense of self-identity among the residents of Taiwan that he did so much to create remains as...
One of the most efficient, comfortable, and enjoyable ways to travel across the Japanese archipelago is by shinkansen, which covers a network of lines from...
Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s first democratically elected president, has died at the age of 97. The former leader passed away on July 30 at Taipei...
A dream can transform a life, giving it purpose. Billy Mills is living proof. The latest episode of American Voices with Senator Bill...