At this time in 2019, I was on a very crowded train on the way from Aomori prefecture back to Tokyo. This year, I was...
About five years ago, I contributed a story titled “Anticipating the Cycle of the 3rd Disruptive Revolution” (Daisan no Garagarapon Kakumei ga Okoru Shuki) to...
(Last of Two Parts) Part 1: Growth Disrupted: A Chastened China Girds for Conflict Reading between the lines of Xi Jinping’s recent...
Source: © SocialWire Co., Ltd. If there is one positive thing that is coming out from the current dire situation, it would be the amount of creativity...
It’s been quite the unusual year, especially for the newly-enthroned Emperor of Japan, who ascended the Chrysanthemum throne on May 1, 2019, starting the new...
On April 19, the Chinese government announced that it had established two new administrative districts in the South China Sea ― one for the Paracel...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Monday evening, May 4, that the state of emergency would be extended until the end of the month, citing the...
(First of Two Parts) Part 2: In Xi Jinping’s Chastened China, an Emerging Insurgency Within the Party The regime of Xi Jinping underperformed when...
The renowned manga artist Leiji Matsumoto auctioned off an illustration with the ubiquitous Space Pirate Captain Harlock, donating the proceeds to the Molinette Hospital in Torino...
Vivi Lin on the surface might seem like your average YouTuber. Five years ago, she started a channel to share her life, stories, and...
It’s a worldwide reality: facemasks are a scarce commodity these days. In places where masks are a prerequisite to venturing outside, people have even been...
China, the source of the novel coronavirus outbreak, is stepping up its efforts toward normalization by ending the lockdown of Wuhan in Hubei province, and...