Second of Four Parts Part 1: Islands of Abundant Nature Spoiled by Ocean Waste Part 3: ‘Port of Humanity’ Tackling Ocean Waste Part 4: Pursuit...
Dearest Megumi, I have called out your beloved name more times than I can remember, determined to see you again, as you know. Megumi...
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...
Feature Photo: Katsushika Hokusai, “Under the Wave off Kanagawa” from the series The Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, circa 1830-1832, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York...
Photo Credit: Spring Rainbow, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Private Collection It’s no secret that one thing Japan is famous for abroad is its culinary culture and...
The current global pandemic has greatly altered life as we know it, and practically every industry has been affected. Some clear cases are tourism and...
On July 12, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Tourism fleshed out the details of unprecedented measures to promote domestic tourism called the “Go To”...
Okinawa’s oldest English language magazine, This Week on Okinawa, celebrated its 65th anniversary in June. One of the oldest English language publications in postwar Japan, it...
There was a good deal of excitement when the idea of discounts for domestic travel was announced on May 26 by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure...
[Bookmark] is a new JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
Looking down from a helicopter on the morning of Wednesday, July 8, following record torrential rains, I surveyed the astonishing amount of damage...
(Introduction to a series on one of Japan’s artistic icons, Hokusai) Other parts of the series: Part 1. [Eternal Hokusai] The Enduring Appeal of the ‘Great Wave’...