Alan Booth is best known as the author of The Roads to Sata, his account of a solo walk from the northern tip of Hokkaido,...
Author Jonathan Manthorpe, a Canadian citizen with decades of residence in Asia as a foreign correspondent, has chosen his title well. Despite its cuddly...
On Friday February 22, Kobe hosted the Kansai Resilience Forum 2019. Its singular purpose: to share with the world the lessons learned from natural disasters....
It seems as though the foundation of Japan is beginning to crumble under its own weight. In particular we Japanese should be concerned about the...
Last in a four part series. Part 1: Dr. Edward Luttwak: It’s A New Cold War with China — and South Korea...
The last weeks of 2018 saw a spate of articles in the English language press reporting that the Japanese “birth rate” was at the...
Osaka Prefecture and AIG Insurance Company are disseminating a brochure titled “Earthquake Response Guide” written in English and other languages for foreigners living or...
If you had told me a year ago that I would be performing on stage in a play where I would be running towards a...
Presented by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) Examining territorial changes reveals the nature of countries. One cannot speak of a country’s...
The Korean media seems to think the issue has been settled when the production company handling the popular boy band BTS (Bulletproof Boy...
“I am not a revisionist,” Yoshiko Sakurai said calmly, despite the sudden rise in tension in the room. She was answering a...
Most of those put on our ship were Japanese from Latin American countries. Among the families from the U.S., however, there were over 100 minors who...