Shortly before the Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo closed on August 31, Motoko Rich expressed an interest in the...
After more than a decade of creeping up from a historical low of 1.26 in 2005, the Japanese fertility rate has once again started declining....
On July 5, Yuriko Koike, the first female governor of Tokyo, won re-election by a wide margin. As widely reported, she received 3,661,371 votes, compared...
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign commentators have been ridiculing the Japanese people for reliance on retro technology and clinging to supposedly outdated business practices. Oddly,...
On May 23, Hana Kimura, a member of the cast for the Fuji Television series Terrace House distributed by Netflix, was found dead in...
In the two decades I taught my course “Japan in the Foreign Imagination” at Keio and other Japanese universities, I came to stress that most...
Until countries went into various levels of lockdown, a film dealing with the comfort women issue was being screened in North America and Europe. Entitled...
On May 21, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) announced that it had removed from its website the cover design that had appeared on...
On February 26, the New York Times (NYT) published an opinion piece by Koichi Nakano, identified only as “professor of political science at...
In 1991, Takashi Uemura wrote an article based on a recording that was made by the first of the “comfort women” to go public, Kim...
English language coverage of the coronavirus issue shows once again the poor quality of English language reporting on Japan — reporting that is biased, incompetent,...
In the last two months of 2019, two South Korean complaints — allegedly based on the period during which Korea was under Japanese control (1910-1945) —...
