On December 17, 2019, the Toba Aquarium in Toba City, Mie prefecture announced that a Zoantharia coral raised at the aquarium has been recognized as...
Kinomiya Shrine in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, is quite a sight at this time of year. The Shinto priestesses, already in their striking white and...
Thanks to you, our dear readers, JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readerships in 2019. Millions of users around the world followed our...
The strategic bombing of the Japanese home islands during WWII targeted military bases, ports, supply depots, factories, and Japan’s economic infrastructure. But that...
The Ota Memorial Museum of Art in the heart of Tokyo’s Harajuku is displaying 220 examples of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by 37 different artists dating...
Typhoon Hagibis — potentially the strongest to hit Japan in 51 years — hit land in the Tokyo bay area around 9 PM on Saturday evening, and...
Story Updated at 1 AM, 12 October 2019 Super Typhoon Hagibis — the Philippine name for the 19th significant weather disturbance this season — is...
Pillow fighting as a sport! Most of us have enjoyed a good pillow fight at some time in our lives. (If you haven't, you don't...
Typhoon Faxai hit the Tokyo area past about 5 A.M. on Monday, September 9, causing casualties, damage to properties, and disruption to transportation in...
A ceremony held July 31 at the Yushukan Museum within the precincts of the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo served to recall the arduous building of...
On June 1, the organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games announced the route for the Olympic torch relay races, which will...
Japan’s plan to host the 2019 Rugby World Cup means sports fans from around the world will be visiting, presenting an opportunity to train the...