News | JAPAN Forward - Part 835

Niigata cover

In Niigata, A Quest for Unique Islands and Local Food

Luca Vogel June 7, 2018

Luca Vogel Due to its curved geographical shape and chains of...

Trump and Kim Summit

Trusting Kim and Trump is Like Believing the Impossible

Duncan Bartlett June 7, 2018

Duncan Bartlett In the classic British children’s story Alice Through The...

Maihama Club

Japan Seen as Model for Eldercare in Asia

Gustav Strandell June 6, 2018

Gustav Strandell I still remember my first research trip to a...

Wahi Paper made by hop

Protecting the Environment, Promoting Local Industries the Japanese High Schoolers' Way

Shohei Nagatsuji June 5, 2018

Shohei Nagatsuji How can young people help ensure a sustainable society...

Naoshima: Japan's Island of Art

Patrick Kelly June 5, 2018

Patrick Kelly In the Seto Inland Sea, a large body of water...

Hello Kitty Shinkansen

Hello Kitty Shinkansen to Make Daily Round Trips From Shin-Osaka to Hakata Starting June 30

JAPAN Forward June 5, 2018

On May 18, JR West announced that a new 500 series Shinkansen...

Kasthuri Srinivasan - Kasthuri Srinivasan Photography

2018 May 14 – 31 – Sakura Photos by JAPAN Forward Readers

JAPAN Forward June 4, 2018

This is our final installment of the 2018 Sakura Photo Contest. Thank you...

The Art of Shinkansen

The Art of Shinkansen: Bullet Trains in Japan

JAPAN Forward June 4, 2018

The Bullet trains in Japan—Shinkansen—are famous worldwide for their speed, efficiency, comfort,...

Minami-Torhishima Island

Newly-Discovered 16 Million MTs of Rare Earth Minerals Can Make Japan Independent of China

Dr Monika Chansoria June 1, 2018

Monika Chansoria The prospects for exploring seabed...

Snoopy Museum in Tokyo

'Friendship in Peanuts': Final Exhibition of Snoopy Museum in Roppongi Runs Until September 24

Yukihiro Watanabe May 31, 2018

FRIENDSHIP IN PEANUTS, the final exhibition at the Snoopy Museum Tokyo, will...

North Korean Nuclear Test Site

Did North Korea Really Make a Strategic Decision to Denuclearize?

Kosuke Takahashi May 31, 2018

Many North Korea experts and journalists around the world are still...

Back in Swing: The Secret Subculture of Jazz Cafes

Taylor Bond May 31, 2018

Read any Haruki Murakami novel and it is easy to tell the...