In late 2018, the Indian government renamed three of the islands in its Andaman and Nicobar...
The picturesque Magome guesthouse (Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture) with its quintessential Edo era post town vestiges behind us, we threaded our way up a stone-paved...
The 50 Years of Go Nagai exhibit celebrating half a century’s work by Japanese manga artist Go Nagai, 73, will open on September 14 at...
When Japanese names are rendered with Latin letters — that is, “romanized” — the given name comes first and the family name comes last. That...
Jinja bukkaku (shrines and temples) is a popular phrase among the Japanese. Although it may seem like they are just sightseeing, many people gather...
Pope Francis is set to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only two cities in the world that have suffered atomic bombing, when he comes to...
The World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight championship fight was held on July 12 in the Edion Arena in Osaka. The former champion and fourth-placer...
Sir Winston Churchill, the wartime prime minister who led England in its darkest hour, continues to be a subject of undying public interest, with...
On July 3, 2019, Japan halted the unrestricted export to South Korea of three high-tech materials essential for the production of semiconductors and display...
In a move to address the global issue of marine pollution by plastic waste, the Japanese government is set to push ahead with the task...
On July 20, Foreign Minister KONO Taro posted on his private blog an article on “Japan-South Korea Relations,” where he offers his thoughts on the...
Free speech is rapidly becoming a vanishing commodity worldwide. Political correctness, pandemic fake news, social media “shadow bans,” and hidebound institutional biases at universities...
