“I love wristwatches, but because I have disabled fingers, I can’t put them on myself”. Such words led to the creation of a wristwatch...
Whiz kid Sota Fujii has sealed another record by becoming the youngest professional player to achieve 200 victories in the traditional Japanese board game...
On November 13, Princess Mako, the eldest daughter of Crown Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, released a statement through the Imperial Household Agency reaffirming her...
Celebrated kabuki actor Sakata Tojuro IV, a living national treasure and winner of numerous cultural awards, and the driving force behind a revival of the...
~The spacecraft is called Resilience, symbolizing the power to recover from adversity. ~ With astronaut Soichi Noguchi as the first Japanese on board, the new...
The popular Meiji Shrine (Meiji Jingu) celebrated its centennial on November 1 as its inner precinct filled with pomp, circumstance, and plenty of festivities. The shrine,...
The number of COVID-19 infections in Japan (positive tests) exceeded 100,000 on October 29. At a glance, this may seem like a very large...
The Demachi branch of Chinese food chain, Gyoza no Osho (Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto), which offered students living in the college town free meals if they washed...
On November 3 the Adachi Museum of Art in Yasugi City, Shimane Prefecture, celebrates the 50th anniversary of its opening. A prestigious specialty magazine in...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga delivered his first policy speech since becoming Japan’s leader on Monday, on October 26, during the 203rd Extraordinary Diet session,...
Above: Author Yumiko Sugihara and a picture from the Takeshima Picture Book from which a South Korean academic stole an image to make false accusations against Japan...
Above: Takeshima, (Okinoshima-cho, Shimane Prefecture) in the Sea of Japan, is called Dokdo on South Korea's 1977 map that appears to be a copy (with place names...