Celebrated kabuki actor Sakata Tojuro IV, a living national treasure and winner of numerous cultural awards, and the driving force behind a revival of the...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long and different types of reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches...
Lee Kun-hee, chairman of South Korea’s largest conglomerate Samsung Group, died on October 25 aged 78. He was a strong leader and visionary who...
Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s first democratically elected president, has died at the age of 97. The former leader passed away on July 30 at Taipei...
Shigeru Yokota spent over half of his 87 years fighting for his daughter to be rescued after she was kidnapped by agents of the...
Professional wrestler Hana Kimura, who also starred on the popular Netflix reality TV program “Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020,” has died of an apparent suicide...
Coaching legend Don Shula died on Monday, May 4, at his South Florida home. He was 90. It was only one football game,...
Irene Hirano Inouye passed away on Tuesday, April 7, at the age of 71, following an extended illness. At the time of her death,...
Yasuhiro Nakasone, the former Prime Minister of Japan, has passed away at the age of 101, according to a statement released on November 29. The...
PARIS — Former French president Jacques Chirac died on September 26 at the age of 86, his family announced on the same day. The cause of...
Donald Keene, world-famous scholar and translator of Japanese literature of all eras, died of heart failure at 6:21 A.M. on February 24 at a Tokyo...
It is with great regret that JAPAN Forward reports the death of yet another of the major figures in post-war British scholarship on Japan. ...
