‘Super Nintendo World’, a new theme area at Universal Studios Japan (USJ) featuring Mario and other popular Nintendo game characters, will be launched in the...
Globally, international tourist arrivals (overnight visitors) declined by 65% in the first half of 2020 compared with the same period previous year, according to the...
Above: North Korea put its missile development on display during a pre-dawn October 10, 2020 military parade in honor of Party Foundation Day. Has COVID-19 deterred...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
Restaurants have taken a heavy economic hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tokyo was under a state of emergency between the first week of April and...
It’s all anybody can talk about in this period of COVID-19: what will happen when the cold finally comes and the flu is just around...
Kenzo Takada, founder of the internationally renowned fashion design brand KENZO, has passed away at a hospital in Paris, France, according to reports. According...
Identifying which patients infected with the novel coronavirus will develop serious cases at an early stage is crucial to administering appropriate treatment. Accordingly, research projects...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga delivered his first address to the U.N. General Assembly on September 26 (Japan time), in which he announced that Japan has...
At first glance it may not be immediately obvious that there is a relationship between what is happening in the world of kimono and COVID-19....
Late July reportedly marked the peak of the “second wave” of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Japan. Compared to the earlier state of emergency period,...
There has been extensive coverage in the past months of how coronavirus lockdowns have affected people everywhere. Still, there are communities whose experiences might...