Satoshi Kuwahara

Satoshi Kuwahara is a senior writer with the Sankei Shimbun, Culture News Section.

Japan Emperor's 60th Birthday

Japan Should Not Dishonor the Emperor and Empress by Inviting Xi Jinping

Satoshi Kuwahara August 3, 2020

In 2019, the Japanese government announced that it would invite Chinese President...

The head of a statue of Christopher Columbus was pulled off overnight in Boston

A Reminder from Montaigne: Keep the Statues, and Remember Their Lessons

Satoshi Kuwahara July 15, 2020

I recently reread a short column by the late Washington Post humorist Art...

Japan Resumes Commercial Whaling 004

Don’t Let the Anti-Whaling Zealots Impose Their Hypocrisy on Japan

Satoshi Kuwahara August 20, 2019

Isn’t totalitarianism from either the left or the right the common enemy of...

Sumo and woman

Life or Tradition? The Problem With How We Responded to the Sumo Controversy

Satoshi Kuwahara April 25, 2018

A recent episode, where at least two women climbed up into the sumo...