As COVID-19, the Wuhan virus, spreads around the world, it is important to remember that this is not a natural disaster, but quite possibly a...
Cherry blossoms beautifully color the landscape of Japan at this time every year. Now, a research team at Hirosaki University in Japan's northern Aomori prefecture...
With the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus, Japan is revving up the development of drugs to treat it. Efforts to repurpose existing drugs have...
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics scheduled for this coming summer have been postponed for about one year because of the new coronavirus pandemic sweeping...
I am somewhat perplexed. Why do we rarely see in our media expressions of gratitude to President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump? On...
The economic impacts of the new coronavirus pandemic have become serious. As the infection has spread from China to Europe and the United States, the...
Many in South Korea blame the strain in relations between Korea and Japan on Japan’s alleged lack of contrition for its past. The current...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) which originated in China has turned the core of Washington D.C.—capital of the nation with the highest number of coronavirus cases...
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike on Monday evening, March 30, called on constituents, especially young people, to avoid going out to restaurants, bars, and live houses to...
People in central Japan woke up on Sunday, March 29, to snow blanketing their areas — in springtime. It was the first time in...
The “Year of the Rat” has certainly gotten off to an inauspicious start, what with the COVID-19 pandemic, trade wars, a shaky global economy,...
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world and cause pneumonia and other complications among vulnerable segments of the population, a debate...