The Japanese hotel industry has been hard-hit by the pandemic, but domestic demand is...
Month: March 2021
Life is not easy here. It never has been and never will be. The...
The row about Professor J. Mark Ramseyer’s work on comfort women is about basic...
~~ The 18m tall Great Buddha (daibutsu) statue in Konan, Aichi prefecture is somewhat...
Japan has the technology. Now the government must provide the financial support to bring...
The 2020 Games will be the "Reconstruction Olympics and Paralympics," and organizers and JOC...
I respect the comfort women immensely, actually. They were strong, canny, resilient, even fiercely...
“What has the disaster taken from people?” asked photographer Shoko Hashimoto. “What effect will...
Sheila Cliffe traces the routes of Japan’s silk road and its path to becoming...
Approximately 1 in 7 houses are empty now on average around the country. Learning...
In its bid to conceal the truth, China admits only 4 fatalities and 1...
Ishinomaki’s losses reflect the greater Tohoku experience. The town which had a population of...
