As the performing arts proved to be the worst-hit sector during this COVID-19 pandemic, with it came one of greatest losses for individuals — the freedom...
A Seoul court has begun hearings on a lawsuit brought by a Vietnamese woman who is demanding the South Korean government pay damages for...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga delivered his first policy speech since becoming Japan’s leader on Monday, on October 26, during the 203rd Extraordinary Diet session,...
(First of 2 parts) Part 2: [Asia’s Next Page] Indonesia in Tokyo’s Changing Regional Outlook Vietnam, unlike other Southeast Asian partners, occupies a key...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
Above: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on October 16, 2020, in an exclusive interview with The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward Bookmark is a JAPAN...
How long will it take before Japan looks back on the Trump presidency with nostalgia? It may happen sooner than you think. If...
Above: Author Yumiko Sugihara and a picture from the Takeshima Picture Book from which a South Korean academic stole an image to make false accusations against Japan...
Above: Takeshima, (Okinoshima-cho, Shimane Prefecture) in the Sea of Japan, is called Dokdo on South Korea’s 1977 map that appears to be a copy (with place names...
Above: Alexander Litvinenko (1962-2006) was a former Russian spy who was poisoned in London with the highly radioactive substance polonium 210. The use of State terror...
On that day in 1911 an uprising against the ruling Qing Dynasty, which broke out in the city of Wuchang in the Yangtze River...
Between 1975 and 1979, the communist Khmer Rouge party terrorized the population of Cambodia. Under the brutal dictatorship of the anti-intellectual Pol Pot regime, millions...
