A slogan which many have been sharing in Japan on SNS and mainstream media is “Corona ni makeruna!” It roughly translates as “Don’t let yourself...
Last of Two Parts (Read Part One here.) Epidemics not Mentioned After the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was defeated badly in the 2009...
First of Two Parts (Read Part Two here) The current fight against the novel coronavirus is only the latest in a series of...
Megaquakes surpassing the strongest ones in Japan’s recorded history could be forthcoming, a string of findings released by Japan’s Cabinet Office on April 21...
Seasonal changes that accompany the coming of spring are normally highly anticipated — in part, because of the fashion that goes with it. However, with...
Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. is speeding up the process of collecting the blood of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 in various parts of...
I have written on this subject time and again, but the phrase “Military Comfort Women” was coined long after the war ended. This terminology has...
When the defense counsel for former Nissan Motor Co. chairman Carlos Ghosn filed with the Tokyo District Court a bail request on April 4, 2019,...
A working committee of the Japanese government’s Central Disaster Management Council, chaired by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, released a report on March 31 on the...
What do you dream when you think of the beach? Is it of the white sands shining like tiny crystals in the summer sun, and...
“Locals of Tottori Prefecture are eating pink curry.” This is the rumor that’s been going around, especially in Thailand. It all started from a...
A poll conducted by The Sankei Shimbun disclosed on March 10 that about 80% of the heads of the cities, towns, and villages in the...