The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc with the world’s economy. Schools, supply chains, and transportation networks have all been thrown into disarray. Even sports...
Every year on August 6, people gather at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park in the morning to observe the anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack. This...
The Chinese novelist Yang Yi (real name Liu Qiao) — so far the only non-Japanese national to ever win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize (2008)...
Hiroshima has undergone great changes since it became the first city in the world to be destroyed by an atomic bomb on August 6,...
The 2020 Eshi-100 exhibition highlighting the works of more than 100 manga artists and illustrators is officially set to start August 8 at Akiba Square...
On anniversaries of the defeat of Japan in the late 1980s, it was commonly quipped that the war was over and Germany and Japan had...
If one day, China should change color and turn into a superpower, if it should play the tyrant in the world, subject others to...
Considered one of the three most important festivals in Japan, the Tenjin Matsuri finds its home at Osaka Tenmangu Shrine, in Osaka City’s Kita Ward. ...
The Tokyo Advertising Museum in Shinbashi is the only museum dedicated to the history of advertising in Japan. It was opened in 2002 to commemorate the...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
As readers who have lived here for any length of time will recognize, Japan has been slow to introduce restrictions on smoking. For example, smoking...
Feature photo: Hokusai’s “Great Wave” in Camberwell, by Dominic Swords Part 2 of a series marking the artist’s 260th anniversary Other parts of the series: Introduction to a...