Overseas attackers use the comfort women as cover for their campaigns against academic freedom. They do not care about the comfort women themselves.
From pandemic management to relations with its neighbors, Japan faces persistent challenges from the mistakes and unfinished business of the postwar Allied occupation.
The critics’ aim is to intimidate public intellectuals through Nazi-like mob-attack tactics.
In a recently launched anime series, the "Dream Monkeys" take to the ice to spread the word of Japanese ice hockey both at home and abroad.
The original meaning has become lost, and there is too much emphasis on commercialism and winning at all costs, and excessive nationalism. It has become a...
There are two critical misperceptions: that Japan transitioned from dictatorship to U.S.-gifted democracy, and that it was never an ally of the West prior to its...
Practically, Tokyo’s two-decade-long investments, strong economic linkages, and growing presence in West Asia and the Middle East make it a critical economic power in Afghanistan.
Japan’s research whaling is quite rigorous, and takes a strictly conservation-based approach. The country’s weak voice internationally makes it hard to defeat unfounded criticism, however.
There were few cheering crowds at the Tokyo Olympics but the praise for Japan in the international media is unprecedented.