The late Nobuyoshi Tsubota used to say that he was not a craftsman, but a technician who faithfully met the players’ needs without pushing his own...
In a political career spanning almost 50 years, it was Ishihara’s stint as Tokyo’s governor and role in the Senkaku Islands campaign that gained him in...
Death of the brother of Yaeko Taguchi, abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, ends the dream of a family reunion, but work to bring home...
The former Naval Air Corps ensign who lived to the good age of 98 piloted both the Zero and Shiden Kai fighters, and was the only...
Tsuboi spent his life teaching about the horrors of atomic weapons. He died at the age of 96, leaving the battle for a nuclear weapons-free world...
Known as “the master of video game music” who wrote songs for many different genres, without a doubt, Sugiyama was one of the leading composers of...
We had only met twice as far as I can recall. But, his cheery greeting to a minor academic decades after our last meeting epitomizes the...
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...