[Mythbusters] Paper Jam: Foreign Reporting is Short on Facts About Fax in Japan
In the two decades I taught my course “Japan in the Foreign Imagination” at Keio and other Japanese universities, [&he
Politics & Security
EDITORIAL | Shigeru Yokota’s Death A Call for PM Abe to Break the Deadlock Over Abductions
It saddens us deeply to report the death of Shigeru Yokota on June 5. He was 87. […]
OBITUARY | Shigeru Yokota: Torchbearer for Japanese Effort to Rescue North Korea’s Abductees
Shigeru Yokota spent over half of his 87 years fighting for his daughter to be rescued after she […]
Special Reports
INTERVIEW | Masahiko Fujiwara: Japan Has Strengths It Can Share in the Post-Pandemic World
There will be radical changes in the international environment brought about by the global havoc wreaked by the [&he
Court Battle Over Comfort Women Film Taints Japanese University’s Research Ethics Record
Until countries went into various levels of lockdown, a film dealing with the comfort women issue was being screened [
Special Reports
EDITORIAL | End Cyberbullying: Disclose Identities of Malicious Social Media Users
At times, words become weapons and cause violence. Anonymous online slander can turn especially malicious and brutal,
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Second Phase or Second Wave? Tokyo Announces Alert After Fresh Spike in COVID-19 Cases
Like many countries around the world, Japan has released citizens from the state of emergency it had imposed to [&hell
Coronavirus
[Mythbusters] Self-righteous Foreign Correspondents in Japan Claim Freedom to Be Offensive
On May 21, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) announced that it had removed from its website the [&helli
Special Reports
Empress Masako Attends to Sericulture Tradition; Princess Aiko Begins School Year Online
At the Akasaka Imperial Residence on May 14, Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako received a lecture by Hiromitsu [&h
Special Reports
INTERVIEW | Pandemic Shows Nations Are On Their Own — Historian Edward Luttwak
The novel coronavirus pandemic has been described as the worst global crisis since World War II. In an April […
Hana Kimura, Professional Wrestler, 1997-2020
Professional wrestler Hana Kimura, who also starred on the popular Netflix reality TV program “Terrace House Tokyo 2
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INTERVIEW | Visionary Jacques Attali on A New Type of Western Society After the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic will be a turning point in the history of the world that requires us to […]