Robert Frost, though far from being as well-known in Japan as in the United States, is widely remembered as someone who wrote the poem that...
Presented by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) Architects play an essential role in contemporary society, helping to shape the environment in which...
“Sake Kasu Fizz.” “Hojicha Infused Whiskey.” What sounds like a bizarre mish-mash of different tastes is, in fact, cutting-edge cocktail mixology, created right...
History is like a series of buoys marking the way through a vast ocean. The buoys are events, facts, things as they really happened in...
Presented by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) Examining territorial changes reveals the nature of countries. One cannot speak of a country’s...
Clive Hamilton’s latest book, Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia (Hardie Grant Books, 2018, 356 pp.), is an important read not just for...
By June Teufel Dreyer Perhaps no issue in the history of post-World War II Japanese relations with Korea and China has been more...
Jason Morgan Ba. It’s a Chinese word. It means “hegemony,” the dominion that one state holds over other states. For veteran China...
Peter Tasker Who is Ryoma? He’s a topnotch swordsman who takes on 30 kendo opponents in a row and leaves them all battered and bruised....
Jason Morgan With few exceptions, leaders of countries are career politicians. They get to their country’s top spot by learning to be as...
A new book is out making Japanese history far more accessible to the English-speaking world. The book, 英語対訳で学ぶ日本 ー 歴史と文化の111項目, covers 111 highlights from Japanese history, providing...
Ryoma ga Yuku (literally, Ryoma Goes His Way), one of the most representative historical novels by Japanese author Ryotaro Shiba (1923-1996), has...