Special Coverage DIALOGUE | Should Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Talk One-on-one with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un? JAPAN Forward January 25, 2019 (Second of Three Parts) Part 1: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Violinist Ryu...Read More
Books [JAPAN LIBRARY] Contemporary Japanese Architects Profiles in Design JPIC January 25, 2019 Presented by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) Architects play an...Read More
Special Coverage DIALOGUE | Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Violinist Ryu Goto Find Common Resolve to End Abduction Issue JAPAN Forward January 23, 2019 (First of Three Parts) What would bring together Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo...Read More
Special Coverage Immortal Jellyfish Rejuvenates Itself Like Benjamin Button Shohei Nagatsuji January 21, 2019 In 2018, a private jellyfish research facility opened in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, near...Read More
History Special Coverage Koreans in Wartime Japan: Don’t Confuse Illegal Immigrants with Recruited Workers Tsutomu Nishioka January 21, 2019 (Second in a 3-Part Series) Part 1: The Reality of the...Read More
Politics & Security Tokyo Must Lodge Strong Protest to Obtain Release of Japanese Unlawfully Detained in China Yoshiko Sakurai, Japan Institute for National Fundamentals January 19, 2019 A recent series of outrageous editorials in The Global Times, an English-language tabloid...Read More
Culture Resurrection of ‘Ichikawa Danjuro’ Ignites Kabuki Fans Yukihiro Watanabe January 18, 2019 With over 400 years of history behind its art, kabuki’s most powerful and...Read More
Politics & Security Japan-South Korea Tensions Grow Over Radar Lock-on Incident Kosuke Takahashi January 17, 2019 Relations between Japan and South Korea have deteriorated further in the wake of...Read More
Culture Harvard Japanese Law Specialist Ramseyer Wins ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ Award Jason Morgan, Reitaku University January 17, 2019 For most scholars, the job description involves toiling away in obscurity. But that...Read More
Olympics & Paralympics INTERVIEW | Governor Yuriko Koike Promotes Prosperous Metropolis Beyond Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Katsushi Nakamura January 15, 2019 Governor Yuriko Koike is set on her plans for a prosperous Tokyo leading...Read More
Culture The Story of Kumamoto Mountains’ Lucky Cat Mizuho Miyazaki January 12, 2019 The Escape Stone, long said to be resilient in the face of calamities,...Read More
Politics & Security Foreign Policy Challenges for India in 2019 Rupakjyoti Borah January 12, 2019 The year 2019 has just begun and there are a host of foreign...Read More