By June Teufel Dreyer Perhaps no issue in the history of post-World War II Japanese relations with Korea and China has been...
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...
By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 323 pages Henry Holt & Co.: New York, 2016 Jason Morgan, for JAPAN Forward ...
Miracles. By Ayako Sono and translated by Kevin Doak. Merwinasia; 242 pages; $45.00. The “I-novel” is a staple of Japanese literature. Perfected by world-famous literary...
