Japan’s Defense Ministry has announced that Japan would forgo sending a Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) destroyer to participate in the South Korea-sponsored international naval...
The Sankei Shimbun Shinzo Abe is set to lead the longest-ever stable government in the history of Japan’s constitutional administration. Mr....
(Part 2 of 5) Part 1: China’s Confucius Institute Takes A Hit with Shutdown Decision in U.S. Universities The Kyoto Museum for...
Patrick Kelly Japan’s largest coral reef, the Sekisei Lagoon, is under extreme stress with only 1.4% now considered healthy according to a...
The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward reporter Mizuki Okada interviewed a veteran lawmaker of the House of Representatives and opposition party member Shu Watanabe...
On his trip to Da Nang in central Vietnam, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the evening of November 11th,...
Does your heart race when you hear adventures about seeking gold and silver at the bottom of the sea? Such stories might soon become reality....
September 11 marked the 5th anniversary of the nationalization of the Senkaku Islands. But the confrontations between Japan and China made local fishermen cannot approach the...
In November 2012, shortly after being anointed to the highest position in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and even before being named head of the...
JAPAN Forward reaches out in unfiltered English to let its writers inform a wider audience of the current issues and debates in Japan that are influencing...
This article—the last in a 4-part series—has been updated from its original version in the March 2017 issue of Seiron Magazine. Part 1: Comfort...
The voice of journalism in Okinawa has long been stifled by the stridently anti-military Okinawa Times and Ryukyu Shimpo. The only two local newspapers...