The comfort women issue has generated a lot of heat. There is endless argument about how many women worked as comfort women, whether they were sex...
Now that President Tsai Ing-wen was safely re-elected for a second term, a new battle has begun. Unlike the domestic one during the presidential, vice...
United States President Donald Trump, known as a man of self-confident showy displays and a way with intemperate language, has impressively restrained himself beyond all expectations...
Professor Lew Seok-choon of Yonsei University in Seoul is under criminal investigation for libel and other charges for his lecture last September 19 where he said...
The strategic bombing of the Japanese home islands during WWII targeted military bases, ports, supply depots, factories, and Japan’s economic infrastructure. But that...
Pope Francis’ visit to Japan this weekend marked the first time a pontiff has alighted on Japanese soil since Pope John Paul II’s brief...
It is remarkable to examine the Japanese public’s relative silence towards Japan’s announcement to purchase the F-35B as its newest military acquisition — a major...
Tiger Woods, who conquered the world as a young golf phenom, returned to form by winning the inaugural Zozo Championship in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, on...
(Part 1 of two parts.) For people in the field of social sciences, the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is a familiar name. Known for his...