Shigeru Yokota spent over half of his 87 years fighting for his daughter to be rescued after she was kidnapped by agents of the...
“Mr. SeaHorses” was an iconic figure for 19 seasons with one franchise in Japan’s evolving pro basketball scene. J.R. Sakuragi, now 43, retired on...
Many people of our generation might not have even been familiar with it before 2020, but the traditional half-mermaid and half-bird yokai (supernatural monster) Amabie...
(Part 11 of a Series) I am often introduced as an artist who paints Musashino, but I realize that I haven’t talked about Musashino...
One of the missed opportunities of this difficult moment is the lack of reflection on death, a taboo. To tell the vision of the end...
There will be radical changes in the international environment brought about by the global havoc wreaked by the new coronavirus. The Sankei Shimbun...
In South Korea, former comfort woman Lee Yong Soo has harshly criticized Yoon Mee Hyang, a former leader of a powerful comfort women support group,...
In two seasons at Canada’s Woodbine Racetrack, Kazushi Kimura has demonstrated that he has the talent and determination to be a successful jockey for...
Until countries went into various levels of lockdown, a film dealing with the comfort women issue was being screened in North America and Europe. Entitled...
At times, words become weapons and cause violence. Anonymous online slander can turn especially malicious and brutal, and when it spreads over the internet, it...
South Korean films are popular around the world. But while in the film world a South Korean film called Parasite has made headlines, in the world...
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned during this global pandemic is that nothing is as stable as it seems. I had a great job...