The deepening of ties between Japan and the United Kingdom in the modern age is not just beneficial for the Anglo-Japan Alliance. It is also beneficial...
Japan has always looked to the emperor, and the unbroken imperial line, as the mainstay of our governance.
Kingyo, aka goldfish, have been common aquarium fish since the Edo era (1603-1867), explains Manato Sekiguchi. In the 21st Century, they can also bring serenity and...
The Olympic flame is no longer flickering in the nation’s capital, but so many memories remain vivid and meaningful.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo are looking for traits “characterized by a willingness to help the weak without regard for one’s own loss or gain.”
Suga’s already ambitious agenda—to manage the pandemic, revive the economy, host the Olympics and strengthen Japan’s posture and position — has been impaired by new COVID-19...
The ceremony helped the athletes feel the vibrancy of walking down the streets of Harajuku or dancing in a typical Japanese summer festival.
Harris should have attempted to understand the history of Japan’s wartime past without applying the easy filter of the DC-Tokyo establishment line.
The emasculation of the state of emergency declaration indicates that people want a policy turnaround.
With 58 medals, including 27 gold, at the Tokyo Games, Japan’s Olympians collected 17 more medals than the nation’s previous record. The host nation received medals...
Here is an exhibition that encourages viewers to engage with artwork in a playful spirit and introspect about the “unsettling feeling” that art can evoke.
Tokyo 2020 has closed, but the heroic individual journeys of each one of the athletes transcends whether they won a medal, or what color that medal...