Veteran journalist Yoshihisa Komori, The Sankei Shimbun’s associate correspondent in Washington, D.C., urged Japanese to speak out and deliver Japan’s views to the world, citing...
Numerous English language articles have claimed that Japan has “more pets than children,” as though this was a singular and defining characteristic of Japanese society....
JAPAN Forward, the news and opinion website showing “the real Japan” to the world, celebrated its second anniversary on Saturday, June 1, with the launch...
Shared Fundamental Values Every spring, cherry blossom trees dotting the streets of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, begin to bloom, a reminder of the enduring...
Foreign pundits and journalists occasionally invent stories about Japan. But more typically they take something that has been said by Japanese and exaggerate it to...
Reiwa, the era name or gengo for the reign of Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito, was taken from Japan’s oldest poetry collection, the Manyoshu (Record of...
United States President Donald Trump, scheduled to visit Japan as a state guest from May 25 to May 28, is expected to meet families of...
United States President Donald Trump pressed North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un to settle the long-festering issue of Japanese abductees at their second summit...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently vowed to “unconditionally” meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, breaking from reiteration of his earlier rhetoric that...
Dear Megumi, How are you doing? Here, the warmth of spring has spread across Japan and your favorite flowers are blooming beautifully. Do...
The Reiwa era has commenced, and all Japanese need to be aware of the true significance of that poetic name that constitutes a call to...
(Second of Two Parts) Part 1: [Mythbusters] The ‘Happiness Report’ that Makes Me Very Unhappy Japan's Missing Culture of 'Blowing your own...