Charles Jenkins, former United States military deserter, and the husband of North Korean abductee Hitomi Soga (58 by now), died of a lethal arrhythmia at...
The date of the Emperor’s abdication, and therefore the beginning of a new era, was finally approved by the Imperial Household Council on December 1....
On December 5th, Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office arrested Motoaki Saito, 49, president of “PEZY Computing” (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), and then director of business development, Daisuke...
Part 1: ‘Megumi Knew Kim Jong-il Family Secrets’: Interview with North Korean Terrorist “Even if we go to Japan, it will be nothing but...
(First of Two Parts) The 29th of November was the 30th anniversary of the terrorist attack that destroyed Korean Air flight 858 carrying 115...
Prince Akishino turned 52 on the 30th of November. At a press conference with Princess Kiko at the royal residence in Moto-Asakusa in Tokyo in...
The Imperial Household Council decided on Friday, December 1, on the date Emperor Akihito will officially step down from the Chrysanthemum Throne: April 30, 2019....
San Francisco’s Mayor Edwin Mah Lee has accepted the donation of a comfort women statue erected in the city by Chinese-American community groups. The...
“Double standards.” “Unfair.” These are some of the comments from applicants to the “Memory of the World” program of the United Nations...
Will this be a means for progress on the abduction issue? On November 20th the United States announced that, once again, it was designating North...
The content of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) working group’s interim report has become extraordinarily tainted due to the unreasonable inclusion of submissions from...
This piece was first published under the title “Seoul University professor denied the theory of comfort women as the sex slave” in Monthly Hanada Selection:...