On Saturday, February 17, the 9th day of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, 23-year-old Yuzuru Hanyu placed first in the men's figure skating competition,...
Galileo Ferrari - Tokyo “Shoryuken!” “Hadoken!” In the early ’90s, middle school and high school students could be found flooding arcade centers—also known as...
A famous cherry blossom at Yoshino-yama in 2017 Despite a rare snowfall in Tokyo in late January, weather forecasts have begun for Japan’s cherry blossom...
North Korean Mangyongbong-92 carrying a 140-strong orchestra approaches to a port in Donghae, South Korea, February 6, 2018. REUTERS On February 5, the Sankei Shimbun...
Galileo Ferrari - Tokyo The 10-day Furusato Matsuri event held in Tokyo Dome every year is an amalgamation of Japan’s best regional festivals,...
An important twelfth-century Japanese sword, discovered hidden in the ceiling during a 1939 refurbishment of the treasure house at Kasuga Taisha shrine in Nara, will now...
Susumu Nishibe, a renowned conservative author and commentator, recently passed away at the age of 78. His final television broadcast, in which he lectured on the value...
Galileo Ferrari - Tokyo On January 11--just in time for the Year of the Dog--Sony released the new AI-equipped domestic robot dog, “aibo.”...
Despite a Japanese official expressing to President Rodrigo Duterte her disappointment in the sudden construction of a comfort woman statue in Manila, the Philippine chief...
(Conclusion) Part 1: ‘Shine Brightly’: Calligrapher Shoko Kanazawa Writes New Year Kanji for ‘JAPAN Forward’ Readers Shoko Kanazawa is one of the most...
(First of two parts) In a calligraphy studio on the outskirts of Tokyo, Shoko Kanazawa—dressed in white tabi, black hakama, and a cornsilk-colored kimono...
2017 commemorates 150 years of history since the Port of Kobe opened, which also marked the arrival of many refugees in Japan. On December 16th,...