Tibetan Buddhism's Tawang Monastery in India (Author Vikramjit Kakati, C C License, Wikimedia Commons) China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has refused to de-escalate the...
As the world battles the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems to have brought out a new kind of assertiveness on the part of...
China has warned Japan that many Chinese fishing boats will enter Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands (Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture), and that...
The Chinese novelist Yang Yi (real name Liu Qiao) — so far the only non-Japanese national to ever win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize (2008)...
If one day, China should change color and turn into a superpower, if it should play the tyrant in the world, subject others to...
In 2019, the Japanese government announced that it would invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to Japan for an official state visit. It was a...
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...
Lee Teng-hui may be gone, but the sense of self-identity among the residents of Taiwan that he did so much to create remains as...
China continues to take various retaliatory measures against Australia in the wake of Canberra’s call for an independent investigation into the origin of the novel...
On July 18, the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) confirmed that a Chinese naval survey vessel which had been operating without permission within Japan’s exclusive...
Yesterday it was reported that Chinese ships have been present in the contiguous zone outside Japan’s territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands for 100 days straight,...
The Defense of Japan 2020 annual white paper, released on July 14, expressed a strong sense of caution against China’s moves in the Japanese...