On June 15, five people who appeared in a documentary called “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue” (Tofu Films) sued the director...
For much of May, my Google news alert was peppered with stories about a slug that had allegedly brought chaos to rail travel in Japan...
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To be sure, that was just a “blackish hole.” An international research team, including scientists from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ),...
Japan should take hold of its narrative and wake up to take its place in the world. That was the take away from the...
A handwritten letter from United States President Donald Trump was delivered to 90-year-old Akihiro Arimoto, father of North Korean abduction victim Keiko Arimoto (23 at...
The Emperor and Empress of Japan celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary on June 9, just a month after acceding to the Chrysanthemum Throne on May...
Later this week, I will have the honor of attending the memorial ceremony of the Battle of Okinawa, which took place 74 years ago. Organized...
In his 1952 book Die Monarchie im modernen Staat (The Monarchy in the Modern State), renowned constitutional scholar Karl Loewenstein described the institution of monarchy...
On the last day of 2018 the editorial board of The New York Times (NYT) issued one of its ex cathedra statements telling Japan and...
A United Nations human rights representative is questioning freedom of the press in Japan, even while the world body maintains a deafening silence on the...
A group of Japanese is set to bring to a United Nations symposium firsthand testimony against Seoul’s claims on the treatment of Korean workers on...