More than 100 scholars of Japan have signed as of October 20 a statement to oppose a joint application filed by various groups from eight...
The laureates and international advisors of the 29th The Præmium Imperiale International Arts Awards held a press conference on Tuesday, October 17, at the Hotel Okura...
In an interview with Sankei Shimbun newspaper on October 5, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leader of the LDP, spoke of his reasons for dissolving the...
Just three days after the city council of San Francisco in California, the United States, allowed a statue depicting South Korean war comfort women be...
In the campaign leading up to the October 22nd House of Representatives election, all eyes are on Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, leader of the newly-formed...
“If the city of San Francisco [in California] accepts the donated comfort women statue, then the sister city agreement will be dissolved.” Osaka Mayor Hirofumi...
September 11 marked the 5th anniversary of the nationalization of the Senkaku Islands. But the confrontations between Japan and China made local fishermen cannot approach the...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to dissolve the lower house of the Japanese parliament a few days after the beginning of the extraordinary session...
On September 3, Princess Mako, the eldest daughter of Prince Akishino-no-miya and Princess Kiko, and Kei Komuro, 25, announced their engagement in a press conference...
In July 1945, the submarine I58 left the Hirao base in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, carrying manned suicide torpedoes called Kaiten—Japan for “Return to Heaven.” Late...
The newest book by renowned ninja researcher Dr Atsumi Nakajima, 73, from Yamaguchi Prefecture, reveals previously unknown ninja tools (ningu), secrets of the ninja arts,...
Criticism of the Korean film Battleship Island (directed by Ryoo Seung-wan) has been increasing. The film is set on the coal mine on Hashima Island,...